Marston St. Lawrence / Merestone
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design element - architectural - arch - crocketed
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090422005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/827615] [accessed 22 April 2009]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/827615] [accessed 22 April 2009]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Lawrence, Marston St Lawrence. Mostly C13 and C14. The tower is C15 or C16."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 November 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4249227] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChurchCrawler, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by ChurchCrawler [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/69023] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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view of font and canopy, baldachin - southeast side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/827615] [accessed 22 April 2009]
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view of font and canopy, baldachin - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2016 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5098350] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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view of font and canopy, baldachin in context - southeast side
Scene Description: the font in the south aisle, by the south entranceway, seen across the nave from the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/827631] [accessed 22 April 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14490MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Marston St Lawrence, Banbury OX17 2DA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1295 712418
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located ENE of Banbury, 6-7 km NW of Brackley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Alboldstow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Marston [St Lawrence] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP5342/marston-st-lawrence/] [accessed 24 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) note: "Font. Octagonal, with crocketed blank arches -- Dec[orated] or Perp[endicular]?" The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP5362242075] notes: "Parish church. C13 and C14 with Perpendicular additions. [...] Font C14-C15 octagonal with blind tracery." Octagonal basin as described above, with a plain underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal with deeply-carved trefoiled arches or windows; the lower base is moulded at the top, turning from octagonal to square at the bottom. The wooden cover consists of a flat octagonal platform with decorated edges, on which eight very thin colonnottes at angles support a crown-shaped canopy; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.074573, -1.21909
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 28.46″ N, 1° 13′ 8.7″ W
UTM: 30U 622052 5770829
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973