Oakley nr. Oxford / Accleia / Achelei / Acle / Acleia / Acley / Akeley / Akleia / Oakele / Ocle / Ocley / Okelee / Okeley / Whokeley
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font cover is visible at the back (west end), right (north) side, opposite the south entranceway
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view of font
Scene Description: note the thick white-wash on it
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view of font and cover
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14444OAK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka St. Matthew's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [St. Matthew?]
Church Location: Oakley, Buckinghamshire HP18 9PU
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B4011, 15 km NE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ixhill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Transitional / Early English
There is an entry for this Oakley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6412/oakley/] [accessed 29 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Lipscomb (1831- ): "The font is columnar under the central arch, between the nave and the north aisle." Noted in Parker (1850): "Font plain, round, Transition N[orman]". In Sheahan (1862): "The font is large, and in the Transition Norman style". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "It is possible that the church of Oakley (fn. 114) belonged before the Conquest, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall, and Addingrove, to the church and canons of St. Frideswide, Oxford. [...] All were formally granted to their house by the Empress Maud, with confirmation from Henry II. [...] The plan of the present building has been developed from that of a 12th-century church consisting probably of a chancel and nave, of which only the nave remains. [...] The circular font is of the early 13th century." The font consists of an octagonal basin, a cylindrical pedestal, a round-to-octagonal lower base, and a narrow octagonal plinth; all plain, but for a chamfer on the lower base, and completely covered in whitewash. The wooden font cover is an octagonal pyramid with panelled sides; 17th- or 18th-century?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.8048,
-1.0703
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 48′ 17.28″ N,
1° 4′ 13.08″ W
UTM: 30U 633044 5741089
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850
Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862
