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

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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

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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]

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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

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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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14381STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Greater
Church Patron Saints: St. James [some sources have James the Greater, others the Less, as patron]
Church Location: The Cross, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, OX29 8PP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, now in the N aisle [moved from near the S door -- cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
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
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.851117, -1.430846
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 4.02″ N, 1° 25′ 51.05″ W
UTM: 30U 608077 5745643

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-. Accessed: 2009-03-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974