South Weston / Westone

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view of font and cover

some of the lower base may have been altered or added; the plinth is modern
Scene Description: some of the lower base may have been altered or added; the plinth is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3982765] [accessed 1 November 2017]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "St Lawrence's, South Weston. The church was built in 1860 on the site of an earlier one. It is part of a benefice incorporating Thame and several surrounding villages."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Lawrence's, South Weston. The church was built in 1860 on the site of an earlier one. It is part of a benefice incorporating Thame and several surrounding villages."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2008 by Andrew Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/720419] [accessed 1 November 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Source caption: "St Lawrence's church, South Weston. Built in 1860. Contains a C13 font and a C14 tomb from an earlier church."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Lawrence's church, South Weston. Built in 1860. Contains a C13 font and a C14 tomb from an earlier church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3904444] [accessed 1 November 2017]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

is the moulding part of the base or the basin?
Scene Description: is the moulding part of the base or the basin?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3982765] [accessed 1 November 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14156WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: South Weston, Oxfordshire, OX9 7EF, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4089, just NW of Lewknor
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Pyrton
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [South] Weston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7098/south-weston/] [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 N[orman]." Sherwood & Pevsner (1974), however: "Font. C13." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon, vol. 8, 1964) notes: "Weston church, a rectory in Aston deanery, may have been in existence by the early 12th century, if not much earlier, when a grant was made from the tithes [...] It was rebuilt of flint in 1860 in the Gothic style. Before its reconstruction it was a very simple building with no tower and little external distinction between nave and chance [...] a Romanesque doorway on the north side [...] and a medieval tub font [...] were preserved from this old church [...] a new cover was to be provided for the font [in the 18th century]". The lower base may have been added or modified; the plinth is modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 639036 5727264
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.679112, -0.988982
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 40′ 44.8″ N, 0° 59′ 20.33″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with flat cross motif and ring hamdle

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, [unpaged -- entry 25] / [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]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 774