Piddington / Petintone

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14163PID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Thame Road, Piddington, Oxfordshire OX6 0PY
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B4011, 9 km SE of Bicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bullingdon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
There is an entry for this Piddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6417/piddington/] [accessed 29 November 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font plain, octagonal, cup-shaped, on a slender stem." The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "This building was probably the same as the present church (formerly chapel) of St. Nicholas, which contains late-13th-century work. [...] The well-proportioned chancel dates from about 1300 [...] Restoration undertaken by J. O. Scott was completed in 1898". The VCH entry does not mention a font in this parish. In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated]". [NB: the VCH notes also: "Before about 1152 a chapel, dedicated to the Holy Cross, was built by Ralph the hermit on Muswell Hill. [...] served by the vicar of Ambrosden in 1396 [...] the last ruins of his chapel disappeared in 1800."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.847039, -1.072328
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 49.34″ N, 1° 4′ 20.38″ W
UTM: 30U 632780 5745782

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-. Accessed: 2012-06-05 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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974