Cholsey / Celsei / Ceolesig / Chausy / Cholsey / Choulcey
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes], located at the east end of the church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2013 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3413734] [accessed 27 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "Towards the Altar. For some reason Cholsey's altar is the other way round in that it is in the nave rather than the chancel. On the left you can see the original entrance door which tends not to be used so much now."
MODERN FONT digital photograph taken 29 March 2013 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3413734] [accessed 27 March 2015]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150327010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Towards the Altar. For some reason Cholsey's altar is the other way round in that it is in the nave rather than the chancel. On the left you can see the original entrance door which tends not to be used so much now."
MODERN FONT digital photograph taken 29 March 2013 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3413734] [accessed 27 March 2015]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2013 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3414765] [accessed 27 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Towards the Altar. For some reason Cholsey's altar is the other way round in that it is in the nave rather than the chancel. On the left you can see the original entrance door which tends not to be used so much now."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2013 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3413729] [accessed 27 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the chancel arch at the far [east] end -- the altar, however, is not in its usual position, and has been placed instead at the west end of the nave, hence the orientation of the seats -- notice also the position of the modern font, at the southeast corner of the nave; the old pulpit, on the other hand, has not been moved accordingly](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150327011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the chancel arch at the far [east] end -- the altar, however, is not in its usual position, and has been placed instead at the west end of the nave, hence the orientation of the seats -- notice also the position of the modern font, at the southeast corner of the nave; the old pulpit, on the other hand, has not been moved accordingly
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2013 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3413725] [accessed 27 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17763CHO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Road, Cholsey, Oxfordshire, OX10 9PS
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Wallingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly in the Diocese of Salisbury]
Historical Region: Hundred of Slotisford [in Domesday] -- formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Redaing
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Cholsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU5886/cholsey/] [accessed 27 March 2015]; it mentions a church and one hide of church lands in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "William I granted the church to the abbey of Mont St. Michel, in Normandy, which held it of him in 1086 [...] The earliest church on this site of which traces remain was probably of the first half of the 11th century", and the first book of baptisms here starts in 1541. There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry but a font, probably a modern one, is shown in the church interior plan, in the middle of the nave, near the south wall.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 627491 5715703
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.577957, -1.160073
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 40.64″ N, 1° 9′ 36.26″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.