Shirburn / Sureburne
Image copyright © John Ward, 2007
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Abaroth, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph by Abaroth [http://abarothsworld.com/Places/Shirburn Church.htm#nogo] [accessed 1 November 2017]
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view of church exterior - tower - west side - detail
![Source caption: "Cletic [sic] knotwork tympanum at the ewest side of the tower" [NB: the CRSBI entry [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/749/] [accessed 1 November 2017] has: "The tympanum is reused as an external lintel over the late medieval window in the ground stage of the W wall of the tower. It is covered with three-strand figure-of-eight knot pattern, bordered by a roll-moulding and by a band of guilloche with the fields enclosing small stars."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171101018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cletic [sic] knotwork tympanum at the ewest side of the tower" [NB: the CRSBI entry [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/749/] [accessed 1 November 2017] has: "The tympanum is reused as an external lintel over the late medieval window in the ground stage of the W wall of the tower. It is covered with three-strand figure-of-eight knot pattern, bordered by a roll-moulding and by a band of guilloche with the fields enclosing small stars."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Abaroth, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph by Abaroth [http://abarothsworld.com/Places/Shirburn Church.htm#nogo] [accessed 1 November 2017]
Copyright Instructions: "Permission is given to reproduce for non-profit purposes only"
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2007 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Abaroth, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph by Abaroth [http://abarothsworld.com/Places/Shirburn Church.htm#nogo] [accessed 1 November 2017]
Copyright Instructions: "Permission is given to reproduce for non-profit purposes only"
INFORMATION
FontID: 14346SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Castle Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX49 5DL, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B4009, 4 km SW of Lewknor
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Pyrton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Shirburn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6995/shirburn/] [accessed 1 November 2017], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 8, 1964) notes: "Between 1146 and 1163 Roger Fitz Alfred, apparently the tenant of the D'Oilly manor, seems to have given the church to Dorchester Abbey [...] The tub font is medieval and has a Georgian pyramidal cover of carved oak." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Plain, C13?, with a Georgian cover."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6577, -0.9946
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 39′ 27.72″ N, 0° 59′ 40.56″ W
UTM: 30U 638713 5724872
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-century? / Georgian?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974