Newnham Murren / Niweham

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design element - motifs - groove or scotia

Scene Description: not known whether original of a modern re-tooling

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: not known whether original of a modern re-tooling

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view of church exterior - north porch

Scene Description: the porch and bell-cote were added in the 19thC

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view of church exterior - north portal

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Newnham Murren [...] it's about 200 metres up a bridleway from the Wallingford bypass."

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - choir - stalls - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The carved detail on the end of one of the choir stalls in St Mary's, Newnham Murren."

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "View down the nave to the arch to the chancel in St Mary's, Newnham Murren."

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view through the chancel arch; the font and cover at the far [west] end

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view of font and cover - east side

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view of font and cover - east side

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view of font and cover in context - east side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14168NEW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Newnham Murren, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford OX10 8BW, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A4130 [aka The St], 1 km E of Wallingford, SE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Langtree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for Newnham [Murren] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6188/newnham-murren/] [accessed 10 August 2018] but it reports neither cleric nor church in it, although the lord in 1066 wa one "Engelric (the priest)". The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font plain N[orman]". Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font probably Norman". Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU6103788488] does not mention a font in it. The draft version entry in the Victoria County History [https://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/newnham_religious.pdf] [accessed 10 August 2018] notes: "The building existed by the early 12th century, when it was probably already used for baptisms and burials [...] In the late Anglo-Saxon period Newnham (with Ipsden and probably Mongewell) was most likely dependent on a minster or other early church at North Stoke. A chapel for the ‘new hām’ may have been established around the same time as the separate Newnham estate (by 966): the building’s location more than ½ mile from the modern village, and next to the former manor house, certainly suggests an early and probably pre-Conquest foundation [...] The present structure dates partly from the early 12th century [...] the surviving Norman font confirms that it had baptismal rights. [...] The cylindrical font is also Norman, although heavily re-cut." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The chancel arch and N doorway are Romanesque, as is the font, although heavily re-cut. [...] The bowl of the font is circular and plain, and regrettably is heavily re-cut." [NB: unfortunately the entry in the CDSBI does not include measurements for the font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.59192, -1.1202
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 35′ 30.91″ N, 1° 7′ 12.72″ W
UTM: 30U 630214 5717326

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 metal decoration

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["References"]
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-08-10 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