Tackley / Tachelie

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view of church exterior in context

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2016 by Christine Matthews [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4992926] [accessed 27 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2016 by Christine Matthews [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4992956] [accessed 27 November 2017]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, 1921 copy of original Norman font, removed and lost during 18th century restoration work. Blocked Romanesque arch, may be Saxon, or placed in Saxon wall when Normans added aisles"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. Myers, St. Nicholas Center, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph by C. Myers, St Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/12/6/] [accessed 27 November 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14416TAC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, OX5 3AE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the A4095-A4260 crossroads, 7 km N of Kidlington, 10 km W of Bicester, 14 km N of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to C. Myers, St Nicholas Center for her photograph of the modern font here
Church Notes: pre-Conquest church here?
There is an entry for Tackley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4720/tackley/] [accessed 20 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 11, 1983) notes: "Architectural evidence suggests that the church existed before the Conquest [...] The north and south walls of the nave seem to be partly pre-Conquest, and the north wall contains two blocked arches indicating that the Anglo-Saxon church had a north aisle, or perhaps porticuses [...] In 1921 a font, apparently dating from 1863, was replaced by a copy of an earlier Gothic font designed by J. C. Buckler in 1825 and removed c. 1854" [footnoted: "Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 2041; B.L. Add. MS. 36377, f. 106; Wilb. Visit. 148"] [NB: we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 615005 5749567

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.