Witney / Witenie / Wyttannige

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/witney.htm] [accessed 11 December 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the modern font in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/witney.htm] [accessed 11 December 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14512WIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Green, Witney OX28 4AW, UK -- Tel.: : +44 1993 779492

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A40, just N of Ducklington, 19 km W of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Witney [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3509/witney/] [accessed 11 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 14, 2004) notes: "Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the existing building [...] Witney church was first recorded in 1162, when Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester, granted it to the hospital of St Cross in Winchester [...] The font, which stood in the late 18th century towards the north-west end of the nave and in 1854 near the south door, was replaced [1866-1867] by a new one in Romanesque style, placed in the centre of the nave towards its west end." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original, or its later replacement]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7808, -1.485

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 50.88″ N, 1° 29′ 6″ W

UTM: 30U 604510 5737744

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2017-12-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.