Oxford No. 27/ Oxeneford

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18077OXF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Michael at the South Gate [demolished in 1525]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [originally in the present grounds of Christ Church College] [cf. FontNotes]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Oxford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the 12thC church demolished in 1525)
Font Notes:
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, then called a chapel, was granted in 1122 to St. Frideswide's priory, [...] which remained patron until the closure of the church in 1525. [...] The church was closed and demolished in 1525 by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make way for the great quadrangle of Cardinal College, and the parish united with St. Aldate's." [NB: 'Cardinal College', later to become Christ Church College after Wolsey's fall from grace in 1529 and subsequent death a year later]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.