Oxford No. 19 / Oxeneford

INFORMATION

FontID: 14385OXF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: High Street, Oxford OX1 4BJ
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
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 Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Font Notes:
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.752778, -1.253736
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 10″ N, 1° 15′ 13.45″ W
UTM: 30U 620537 5734985

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-. Accessed: 2012-06-20 00:00:00. 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