Sydenham / Sidreham
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of England parish church of St Mary, Sydenham, Oxfordshire: detail of south door, with a keyway made from a brass sundial".
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - piscina
Scene Description: dated 13tthC in the VCH entry for this parish
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font cover is discernible in the gap between the benches just inside the south doorway
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14155SYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary [aka Our Blessed Lady's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, inside the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Sydenham, Oxfordshire, OX39 4ND, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4445, E of the M40, 5 km SSE of Thame
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lewknor
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 1185-1186 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Sydenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7301/sydenham/] [accessed 1 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain, round, E[arly] E[nglish]". Described in Lee (1883): "The font is circular, first-pointed in style and plain." Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 8, 1964) informs: "The church is mentioned in a charter of 1185–6, [...] but its early history is as obscure as the early history of Sydenham itself [...] The church of St. Mary, dedicated as the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a small building of flint and stone, dating mainly from the 13th century, although considerably restored in the 19th century […] The piscina with fluted bowl and trefoil arch in the south wall and the plain tub font also date from the 13th century. The greater part of all the 13th-century work presumably belongs to the year 1293 or just after". None of them mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The bucket-shaped basin rests on a very short circular moulded base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 641892 5730504
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.707511, -0.946379
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 42′ 27.04″ N, 0° 56′ 46.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and moulded atop, with turned finial/handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Lee, Frederick George, Rev., The History, description, and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame, in the County and Diocese of Oxford, [...], London: Printed and published by Mitchell and Hughes, 1883, p. 232
- 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, [unpaged -- entry 23] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]