Upton nr. Didcot / Optone / Upton in Vale of White Horse

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2008 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/935317] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3996960] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the old basin in the foreground [west end], near the south doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3990241] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: photograph taken from inside the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3996959] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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view of church interior - north doorway

Scene Description: Source caption: "North Door. Normally these doorways are blocked up but it is nice to see the one at St Mary Upton is still there to use."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3997187] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3997154] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3997154] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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view of font in context - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3990245] [accessed 27 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13072UPT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Street, Upton, Oxfordshire, OX11 9JB

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A417, WNW of Blewbury, 2-3 km S of Didcot [NB: not to be mistaken with another Upton in Oxon, nr Burford]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxfordshire

Historical Region: Hundred of Blewbury [in Domesday] -- formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Reading

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left of the entrance

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Upton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU5186/upton/] [accessed 27 March 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "A small N[orman] chapel of early character [...] The font is plain, round." The Victoria County History entry for Blewbury (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) includes Upton's Church St. Mary: "The church appears to be an original early 12th-century building, but in 1885 it underwent a drastic restoration [...] The bowl of the font is circular and is probably of 12th-century date, but the base is modern." Noted in the Parish website [www.churnchurches.co.uk/up_building.php] [accessed 1 August 2007]: "The current church building dates from the eleventh or twelfth centuries, and though a major restoration took place in 1885, the church has not changed much in almost a millennium [...] The font, by the south door, is probably as old as the church".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 620498 5715537

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round with metal ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850