Hampton Gay / Hantone

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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles Church, Hampton Gay. At some distance from the few houses that now comprise Hampton Gay, and with only a ruined manor house nearby, this is quite an isolated spot for a parish church. Despite that, regular services are still held here during the summer months. Hampton Gay is one of the few villages round here that is actually smaller than it was in days gone by."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 January 2015 by Des Blenkinsopp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4318130] [accessed 7 December 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hampton Gay church. Church, ruined manor house and a few cottages are all that remains of a village now deserted."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Hilton, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 December 1992 by Christopher Hilton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3340295] [accessed 7 December 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14249HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Hampton Gay and Poyle, Oxfordshire OX5 2QQ
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A34, S of Bletchingdon, NE of Kidlington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Hirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1074?
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hampton [Gay and Poyle] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/hampton-gay-and-poyle/] [accessed 7 December 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The earliest evidence that has been found about a church at Hampton Gay is a grant of tithes in 1074 [...] Of the medieval building nothing remains except the cross on the eastern gable and the reused battlements of the tower. During the 19th-century restoration, remains were found inside the walls of a 13thcentury stiff-leaf capital and fragments of windows, which were probably parts of the original church. [...] The Revd. Thomas Hindes (d. 1768) provided money to rebuild the church, and it was opened for services in 1772. [...] The original foundations were used but the fabric of the medieval church was ruthlessly destroyed. The new Georgian building was considered by 19th-century admirers of gothic architecture 'a very bad specimen of the meetinghouse style'. [...] The font, which originally belonged to the church of Shipton-on-Cherwell, is modern." [NB: this last entry is footnoted "MS. Top. Oxon. d 90, f. 39", a reference to a collection of original drawings of fonts and churches at the Bodleian Library, Oxford]. There is no font mentioned in the entry for this church in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8446, -1.2979
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 40.56″ N, 1° 17′ 52.44″ W
UTM: 30U 617250 5745124
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-02-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.