Shifford / Scipford
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 December 2005 by Steve Newman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/100967] [accessed 6 December 2017]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Motacilla, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2011 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shifford_StMary_SE.JPG] [accessed 6 December 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21557SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Location: Shifford, Witney OX29 7QS , UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the N bank of the Thames, 10 km S of Witney.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: chapelry of Bampton
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Shifford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3701/shifford/] [accessed 6 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 13, 1996) notes: "A chapel existed c. 1230 when Eynsham abbey, as lord, agreed to give the vicars of Bampton 2 lb. of wax a year for lighting it on St. Laurence's feast day. [...] remained subject to Bampton until 1857 [...] The chapel had baptismal rights by the 18th century and probably from the Middle Ages [...] the font and pulpit are modern".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7109, -1.4587
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 39.24″ N, 1° 27′ 31.32″ W
UTM: 30U 606488 5730009
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2017-12-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.