Appleford / Appleford-on-Thames
Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004
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Results: 3 records
R01: design element - architectural - corbel - 4
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090906015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004
Image Source: detail of a photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004 [www.oodwooc.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Bates, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2005 by Colin Bates [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/46110] [accessed 15 November 2011]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004
Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15250APP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Church Street, Appleford, Oxfordshire, OX14 4QE
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B4016, E of Sutton Courtenay, 3 km N of Didcot
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Ock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photograph of this font
Church Notes: originally a chapelry of Sutton Courtenay
Font Notes:
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Described in The ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England (1855): "The font is curious, Transition N[orman], octagonal above and round below. Noted in Murray (1882): "a singular Trans[itional].- Norm[an] font, round below and octagonal at top." Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font octagonal, with a Decorated base". The Victoria County History entry for Sutton Courtenay (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes Appleford, its church and font: "The 13th-century font is octagonal above and circular below and has four moulded brackets." The octagonal part has each face terminated by a large scallop at the bottom, and a corbel projecting at the top." These 'corbels' are located at the rim on every other side of the octagonal basin; one of them appears broken off; the squat base is circular. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle; Victorian?
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 621790 5722355
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
"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 44
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855