Great Rollright
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font in context
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14248ROL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Great Rollright
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Hook Norton Rd, Great Rollright, Chipping Norton OX7 5SA, United Kingdom
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A361, 5 km NNE of Chipping Norton
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal, with quatrefoils enclosing rosettes." Besides those motifs noted there, there are floral motifs on the underbowl chamfer sides, a centre ring moulding at the lower end of the underbowl, and trefoil-headed arches or windows on the sides of the octagonal stem; the lower base is octagonal and moulded. There is tiny octagonal plinth the extension of which is linked to the base of the nearby pillar. The wooden cover appears octagonal and flat (?) [NB: the church has a beautiful porch with beak heads and zig-zag, but we have no information on the corresponding baptismal font of that period]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 624