Oxenton / Oxendone
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5861242] [accessed 4 February 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5861242] [accessed 4 February 2019]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5863442] [accessed 4 February 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5861281] [accessed 4 February 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - south wall - painting
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Oxenton. Layers of medieval and later paintings on the South wall of this memorable church at the foot of Oxenton Hill."
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view of font and cover in context - southwest side
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Oxenton. The 14th century font, with traces of original colour."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5861242] [accessed 4 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14187OXE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Oxenton, Gloucestershire, GL52 9SE
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km N of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury, lower division
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
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The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1968) notes: "Oxenton chapel was included among grants to Tewkesbury Abbey by Robert FitzHamon (d. 1107) and others, which were confirmed c. 1145. [...] The chapel was possibly founded by FitzHamon for his Oxenton tenants, and later granted by him to the abbey. Oxenton remained a chapel of ease to Tewkesbury until the Dissolution; the chapel was probably served by priests specially appointed rather than by abbey priests in general [...] There is some 13th-century work, including a piscina with a cusped head in the south-east of the nave, but the rest of the fabric dates mainly from the 14th and 15th centuries. [...] the font is 14th-century". In Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C14; octagonal. Remains of painting on the bowl, which has two trefoil-headed panels on each face."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 564441 5759436
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain flat octagonal platform with vertical metal scrolls on it
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002