Somerton nr. Oxford / Suasertone / Sumertone

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Image Source: digital photograph posted 19 July 2015 by Sue Vincent [https://scvincent.com/2015/07/19/sidetracked-to-somerton/] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: a large one

Image Source: digital photograph in the St James, Somerton, Oxfordshire, A Guide [http://somertonoxon.co.uk/st-james-church/church-guide/] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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Image Source: digital photograph in the St James, Somerton, Oxfordshire, A Guide [http://somertonoxon.co.uk/st-james-church/church-guide/] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1610281] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "the blocked up door on the south side of the nave. This door with its round Norman arch may have been the original entrance to the church since church doors were traditionally on the south side and at that stage much of the village may have been in the area to the south of the church which is now an orchard."

Image Source: digital photograph in the St James, Somerton, Oxfordshire, A Guide [http://somertonoxon.co.uk/st-james-church/church-guide/] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14164SOM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Church Street, Somerton, Oxfordshire OX25 6NB

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4030, E of the A4260, 29 km N of Oxford (dir. Banbury)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the blocked S doorway

Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries of this Somerton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4928/somerton/] [accessed 14 December 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is D[ecorated], with canopies". Murray (1882) reports a font od "singular shape" here. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "Somerton church must have been in existence by 1074, when a grant was made of the tithes of Northbrook, part of Somerton parish [...] All that now remains of the original 12th-century church is a blocked-up doorway in the centre of the south wall of the nave. [...] The 14th-century hexagonal font is unusual." In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. An odd shape; it may be the upturned base of a medieval stone cross."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.95368, -1.278797

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 13.25″ N, 1° 16′ 43.67″ W

UTM: 30U 618279 5757286

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal, flat and plain

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882

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