Oxford No. 19 / Oxeneford
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14385OXF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid?), Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High Street, Oxford OX1 4BJ
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between the Radcliffe Camera and the High Street, in central Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Font Notes:
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There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 9 November 2016], two of which mention a church in each. Neale (1825) notes a wooden font in this church at the time: "The font is simply of oak, lined with lead; it is of an octagonal form, with a conical top." A later wooden font here is noted in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) as having replaced the medieval one at the time of the Civil War.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 620537 5734985
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.752778, -1.253736
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 45′ 10″ N, 1° 15′ 13.45″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood, oak
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Neale, John Preston, Views of the most interesting collegiate and parochial churches in Great Briatin; including screens, fonts, monuments, &c. […] with historical and architectural descriptions [vol. II], London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, and Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825, vol. 2 [unpaged]