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human figure - head - wearing headdress
Scene Description: detail of the 19th-century font [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church - elevation - tower
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2009 by Ozeye [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Merton_College_Chapel_from_just_north_of_the_Meadow.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2012]
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view of font cover - detail
Scene Description: detail of the 19th-century font cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © hpwtdogmom [Andrea Loughry], 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2009 by hpwtdogmom [Andrea Loughry] [www.flickr.com/photos/hpwtdogmom/4433770381/] [accessed 19 June 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18076OXF
Church/Chapel: Merton College Chapel [aka Church or Chapel of St. Mary and St. John]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Merton Street , Oxford OX1 4JD
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located inside the College, on Merton Street, central Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Century and Period: , Medieval
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 brief history of this chapel appears in the Merton College web site [www.merton.ox.ac.uk/chapel_and_choir/history.shtml] [accessed 19 June 2012]: "Work on the church of St Mary and St John, now the Quire of Merton College Chapel, started in the late 1280s to replace the parish church of St John the Baptist which stood on the site now occupied by the north wing of Mob Quad. [...] By the end of the century the Crossing and South Transept had been built, followed in 1425 by the North Transept. This space was designated for the use of parishioners, accounting for the ability to enter the Chapel from the street. [...] The Chapel was never completed [...] The nineteenth century saw extensive changes to the Chapel interior. [...] a gothic font was introduced to the North Transept". [NB: we have no information on any earlier fonts in this chapel].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.751062,
-1.252109
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 45′ 3.82″ N,
1° 15′ 7.59″ W
UTM: 30U 620654 5734797
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
