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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 25 August 2008 by Bill Nicholls [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=4807500] [accessed 4 January 2009]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 25 August 2008 by Bill Nicholls [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=4807500] [accessed 4 January 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken on 25 August 2008 by Bill Nicholls [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=4807500] [accessed 4 January 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font is visible at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2015 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4361375] [accessed 4 May 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font; the hanging bell rope on the left shows that the font is located in the tower space

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2015 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4360144] [accessed 4 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14177MOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Reading Road, Moulsford, Oxfordshire, OX10 9HU

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A329, 5 km NNW of Goring, 6-7 km SSW of Wallingford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Moreton

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A font here is described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font a rude octagonal bowl, resting on two steps, early English or Decorated". The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) informs: "In 1846 the old church was taken down and the present building erected on the old foundations [...] In the west wall is a small lancet window of original 13th-century date", but there is no mention of the font, but the VCH notes that baptisms at the old church are recorded since 1772. [NB: an architectural feasibility study by John Radice, architect, [http://www.radice.org.uk/churches/stjohn.htm -- undated -- accessed 4 January 2009] shows three possible options for renovation, the second of which involves relocating the font -- the modern font is located in the space beneath the tower, curiously, on an existing tombstone]. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the medieval font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.553323, -1.147979

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 33′ 11.96″ N, 1° 8′ 52.72″ W

UTM: 30U 628399 5712985

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2009-01-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.