Souldern

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: INT TOWER ARCH digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Souldern_StMaryTheVirgin_TowerArch.JPG] [accessed 14 December 2016] CC-BY-SA-3.0 Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin parish church, Souldern, Oxfordshire: Norman tower arch built in the 12th century and rebuilt by G.F. Bodley in 1906." FONT NO PERMIT digital photograph in www.alarmy,com -GFECM0

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2015 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4594962] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Souldern in Oxfordshire: interior of the chancel designed by Sir Ninian Comper and built in 1897."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Souldern_StMaryTheVirgin_Chancel_interior.JPG] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin parish church, Souldern, Oxfordshire: Norman tower arch built in the 12th century and rebuilt by G.F. Bodley in 1906."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Souldern_StMaryTheVirgin_TowerArch.JPG] [accessed 14 December 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font and cover by one of the pillars of the south arcade, towards the west end of the nave -- there is visible damage to the upper rim, probably caused by the expansion of a metal staple splitting the stone

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14351SOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: High Street, Souldern, Oxfordshire OX27 7JL

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B4100 between Banbury (NNW) and Bicester (SSE), near the county border with Northamptonshire

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for Souldern in the Domesday survey. Gough and Gough (1887) write in their entry for this church: "The font, which Mr. Parker does not notice, stands near the S. door, and is evidently very ancient, of the simplest form, without any sculpture, and large but whether Saxon or Norman -- has not been determined. It has been roughly used, and pieces, the size of a man's hand, have been knocked out of it." The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The church was given before 1161 to Eynsham Abbey by Jordan de Say [...] The earliest parts of the church are the tower and the north wall of the nave, which, together with the north doorway, date from the second half of the 12th century [...] The 12th-century stone font is plain and circular"; the VCH entry (ibid.) adds a footnote: "There is a Buckler drawing in MS. Top. Oxon. a 68, f. 483." [i.e., in the Bodleian Library].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.981308, -1.239915

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 58′ 52.71″ N, 1° 14′ 23.69″ W

UTM: 30U 620877 5760422

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: nound and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Gough, John Hill, Historical and descriptive notices of the Parish of Souldern, Oxfordshire, Banbury: Printed for the [Oxfordshire Archaeological] Society (late the North Oxfordshire) by John Potts, 1887