Stonesfield
Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcots/StonefieldPhotos.html] [accessed 29 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcots/StonefieldPhotos.html] [accessed 29 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - chancel and nave - looking northeast
Scene Description: the font in the foreground, on the right/south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14381STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Greater
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, now in the N aisle [moved from near the S door -- cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James [some sources have James the Greater, others the Less, as patron]
Church Address: The Cross, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, OX29 8PP, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4437, 7 km W of Woostock, 20 km NW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Font Notes:
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Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal; C14." The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 11, 1983) informs: "The church was recorded from the early 13th century [...] Except for the north aisle and the south porch all were built or rebuilt in the 13th century [...] The octagonal 14th-century font in the north aisle formerly stood at the south door." The font is octagonal all over with flat and round mouldings at basin and base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font. We are also grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 608077 5745643
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.851117, -1.430846
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 51′ 4.02″ N, 1° 25′ 51.05″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
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. 791