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Scene Description: Northeast angle of the Mob Quadrangle, Merton College
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2005 by Tom Murphy VII [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mob_Quad.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2012]
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Scene Description: Northwest angle of the Mob Quadrangle, Merton College, ca.1910
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Image Source: half-tone illustration ca.1910 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Merton-college-mob-quad-half-tone-1910.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2012]
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Scene Description: Merton College quadrangle: upper view -- the disappeared church of St. John the Baptist stood on the site of the north range of the Quadrangle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © DWR, 2003
Image Source: digital phtograph taken 27 June 2003 by DWR [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mob_Quad_from_Chapel_Tower.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18075OXF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: [originally located "on the site of the north range of Mob Quadrangle in Merton College" [cf. FontNotes]]
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: ***NOT to be mistaken with the present chapel of Merton College*** [Merton College is located on Merton Street, off High Street, in central Oxford]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Oxford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 10 November 2016]; two of them mentions a church in each. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes: "The church, which stood on the site of the north range of Mob Quadrangle in Merton College, existed by c. 1206. [...] Merton appropriated the church in 1292 [...] and it became the college chapel [...] until 1847 [...] when, as a result of the abolition of peculiar jurisdictions in the diocese, the bishop claimed authority over the church. Friction between the bishops and the college over the dual nature of the church and the status of its minister continued until its closure in 1891 [...] Throughout the period 1292-1891 the parochial function of St. John's was subsidiary to its function as a college chapel. [...] In 1891 the church ceased to be parochial, and the parish was united with St. Peter-in-the-East." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church]. [cf. Index entry for Oxford No. 26 for the present chapel of Merton College].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.7508,
-1.2524
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 45′ 2.88″ N,
1° 15′ 8.64″ W
UTM: 30U 620634 573476
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
