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B01: design element - motifs - tracery
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14414SWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located NE of Chipping Norton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [re-tooled?], Decorated [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C14. Octagonal, with blind tracery on each face." The wooden font is octagonal and flat, with a round knob handle; it appears moder, but shows through the old metal staples of the upper rim of the basin. The tracery is located on the panels of the basin, themselves in thick piping frames; the underbowl chamfer has graded moulding, and there are mouldings at the top and bottom of the stem of the base. [NB: the outer surface of the font appears to have been re-tooled or drastically cleaned recently]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974