Shipton Oliffe / Scipetune / Sciptune / Shipton Olillo
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Shipton Oliffe church is dedicated to St Oswald, here it is viewed from the west."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/881972] [accessed 7 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Oswald, Shipton Oliffe. Looking west through the transitional (earliest Gothic) chancel arch. The two windows in the west wall ahead replaced plain 17th century leaded ones during a restoration by H A Prothero of Cheltenham in 1903-4."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Brown, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2017 by Chris Brown [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5663896] [accessed 7 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with view of the lopsided chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14070SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Address: Shipton Oliffe, Gloucestershire GL54 4JD, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A40, 10 km ESE of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley -- Hundred of Wacrescumbe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: moved font? (is the present font originally from Shipton Solers nearby? -- disapeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Shipton [Oliffe] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP0418/shipton-oliffe/] [accessed 7 February 2019] one of which mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Font. Plain Perp[endicular; octagonal bowl". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "Shipton Oliffe probably had a church in 1086 […and...] had a dedication to St. Oswald in 1307 […] The plain medieval font has an octagonal bowl". The same VCH entry, in reference to the font at nearby Shipton Solers [aka Sollers, Sollars], footnotes: "According to Bigland, Glos. iii, no. 234, the Shipton Solers font was removed to Shipton Oliffe ch. in the mid 19th cent."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 572488 5746595
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.865428, -1.947236
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 51′ 55.54″ N, 1° 56′ 50.05″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 607