Shirburn / Sureburne

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2007 by John Ward

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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."

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."

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 church exterior - southeast view

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 in context

Scene Description: in the nave, looking east

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

Font ID: 14346SHI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Notes: redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust

Church Address: Castle Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX49 5DL, UK

Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the B4009, 4 km SW of Lewknor

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Pyrton

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

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."

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 638713 5724872

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6577, -0.9946

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 39′ 27.72″ N, 0° 59′ 40.56″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 761