Oxford No. 26 / Oxeneford

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].