Somerton nr. Oxford / Suasertone / Sumertone
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
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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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Somerton, 2016
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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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: a large one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Somerton, 2016
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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view of font and cover in context
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Somerton, 2016
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]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sue Vincent, 2015
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14164SOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the blocked S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Church Street, Somerton, Oxfordshire OX25 6NB, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font? re-cycled cross base? (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1074 church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 618279 5757286
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.95368, -1.278797
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 57′ 13.25″ N, 1° 16′ 43.67″ W
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-. 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, p. 273
- 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 57]