Woodcote nr. Reading
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Results: 6 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font, "A good example of the Romanesque Revival style" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420547] [accessed 27 August 2018]
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view of church exterior - piscina
!["Pillar piscina. Probably C12. Stone. Round bowl on pillar" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180827007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "Pillar piscina. Probably C12. Stone. Round bowl on pillar" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5419619] [accessed 27 August 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Bates, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2005 by Colin Bates [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/37060] [accessed 27 August 2018]
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420550] [accessed 27 August 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14513WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Notes: chapel dependant on South Stoke St Andrew's documented by 1409 but has 12thC foundations [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: South Stoke Road, Woodcote, Reading RG8 0PG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1491 680979
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B471, NE of Goring, 11 km NNW of Reading, 23 km SE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC chapel/church here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for this Woodcote in the Domesday survey. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) note: "The so-called 'old font' outside the porch on a modern pillar is probably the bowl of a Norman piscina". The Church of England's www.achurchnearyou.com site notes "a stone pulpit and font both of which are decorated with illuminated text" in this church. Theres is an entry in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU6437582146] for a "Pillar piscina. Probably C12. Stone. Round bowl on pillar"; the entry for the church itself [Listing NGR: SU6437582155] notes: "Romanesque style font with round column base and square top with carved roundels to each side", but this font is not Romanesque but "A good example of the Romanesque Revival style." This entry mentions the church has "C12 foundations; rebuilt 1846".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 633718 5711139
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.5355, -1.072
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 32′ 7.8″ N, 1° 4′ 19.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 852