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view of church exterior - south porch
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18079OXF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas the Martyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Location: Becket Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 1JL
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located between Becket St. and St. Thomas St., near Oxford railway station, in Osney
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes:
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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: "Between 1189 and 1191 Bishop Hugh of Lincoln authorized the canons to build a chapel in front of their gates for their servants, guests and parishioners. That chapel was probably St. Thomas's [...] The church of St. Thomas the Martyr [...] contains three heavily restored late-12th-century windows, and a Norman chancel arch was destroyed in 1825. [...] St. Thomas's remained a chapel of Oseney abbey throughout the Middle Ages. [...] As late as 1872 the district was described as a 'parish or parochial chapelry', but in 1948 it was stated to be an ancient parish." [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.751662, -1.268504
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 5.98″ N, 1° 16′ 6.61″ W
UTM: 30U 619521 5734836
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.