Wolvercote / Elfegescote / Ulfgarcote / Wolvercot

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's parish church, Wolvercote, Oxford: inside the nave, looking northeast to the chancel (right) and arcade to the north aisle (left)".

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's parish church, Wolvercote, Oxford: inside the nave, looking west to the tower arch".

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view of font and cover - northeast side

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view of font and cover - northwest side

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's parish church, Wolvercote, Oxford: Norman baptismal font, seen from the northwest"

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's parish church, Wolvercote, Oxford: baptistery in the ground stagte [stage?] of the west tower".

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14313WOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: First Turn, Wolvercote, Oxford OX2 8AQ, UK -- Tel.: (01865) 236094
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A34-A40-A44 crossroads, 5 km N of Oxford, S of Kidlington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 12th century [restored], Norman [altered]
There is an entry for Wolvercote [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4909/wolvercote/] [accessed 6 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiologist (vol. CXXXVI, no. 2, February 1860: 191) reports on the renovated church of St. Peter's, Wolvercote: "The old font, a rude affair has been cleaned and set upon a new base and step. It stands in the tower". Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Norman, tub-shaped, incised with a diaper pattern" [NB: there is no 'diaper pattern' on this font; the only decoration is a narrow band of very thin parallel mouldings framed by beaded tape at both ends]. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 12, 1990) notes: "A chapel of ease at Wolvercote subject to the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, was first recorded in 1236, but architectural evidence indicates that it existed by the late 12th century [...] The 12th-century font, which survived in 1984, implies that the chapel early acquired baptismal rights [...] The medieval church, demolished in 1859, comprised chancel, nave with north chapel and south porch, and the surviving west tower [...] The later 12th-century chancel arch, which survived until 1859, confirms the evidence of the surviving 12th-century font for a 12th-century church, comprising nave and chancel". Described and illustrated in the parish web site [http://stpeterswolvercote.org/index.php?s=content&p=Historychurch] [accessed 15 March 2009]: "The font stands in the tower, surrounded by the bell ropes for the six bells. Carved out of a single block of stone with a diamond pattern around the rim, the font [...] probably dates from the 12th century."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.784842, -1.281057
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 5.43″ N, 1° 16′ 51.8″ W
UTM: 30U 618567 5738506

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974