Marsh Baldon / Baldedone / Balordone

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2010 by Motacilla [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarshBaldon_StPeters.JPG] [accessed 12 June 2012]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - sundial

Scene Description: not in its original location; the Anglo-Saxon sundial was moved from its earlier position on the south wall, to its present location over the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2010 by Motacilla [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarshBaldon_StPeters_sundial.JPG] [accessed 12 June 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14316MAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Baldon Lane, The Baldons, Oxfordshire, OX44 9LS

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A4074, just S of Nuneham Courtenay, 8 km SE of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Headington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bullingdon

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

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There are two entries for [Marsh] Baldon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5699/marsh-baldon/] [accessed 10 November 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957): "The early history of the church is obscure, but there can be little doubt that a chapel of St. Peter at Marsh Baldon was originally served by the secular priests of the Saxon church at Dorchester [...] The only trace of Saxon work remaining is a scratch dial with cabled border, once on the south wall but now over the south doorway. [...] The aisle was enlarged and rebuilt between 1888 and 1890 [...] A new octagonal font of stone was put in 1890" [this last phrase footnoted: "Bodl. MS. Top Eccles. E 4, f. 607", a reference to a drawing in a collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford]. [NB: the church itself goes back to the 14th century]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.69, -1.184

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 24″ N, 1° 11′ 2.4″ W

UTM: 30U 625524 5728121

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.