Nether Worton / Hortone / Little Worton / Ortune

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.James' church. Grade II listed, largely 14th century church with some Norman and Early English details and a tower of 1630, restored in 1883. The chancel was demolished at an unknown date."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3897318] [accessed 27 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3897323] [accessed 27 November 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 18thC font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1615526] [accessed 27 November 2017]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1615518] [accessed 27 November 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21549WOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Nether Worton, Oxfordshire, OX7 7AS, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4031, 6 km W of Deddington, 11 km S of Banbury, 12 km E of Chipping Norton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Romanesque

Church Notes: church originally a chapel-of-ease to Great Tew, until the 17th or 18thC [not clear when the change of status occurred, according to VCH]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for [Nether and Over] Worton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/nether-and-over-worton/] [accessed 21 November 2017], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 11, 1983) notes: "The earliest evidence of a church at Nether Worton is 12th-century work in the building [...] In the Middle Ages it was a chapelry of Great Tew, but was later considered a separate parish. [...] It was sometimes called Little Worton [...] The font is modern, but the earlier, 18th-century, font, with a small fluted bowl and baluster stem, survives in the north-west corner of the church."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.96775, -1.381336

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 58′ 3.9″ N, 1° 22′ 52.81″ W

UTM: 30U 611198 5758689

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2017-11-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.