Former Font Approximately 70 Metres East South East Of Kiddington Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1988. Font.

Former Font Approximately 70 Metres East South East Of Kiddington Hall

WRENN ID
gentle-solder-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
13 June 1988
Type
Font
Source
Historic England listing

Description

KIDDINGTON WITH ASTERLEIGH KIDDINGTON SP4122 10/69 Former font approx. 70m ESE of Kiddington Hall

  • II

Font, now garden ornament. Probably C14 or C15. Limestone. Octagonal plan, although only 2 sides remain at time of survey (April 1987). Blind traceried panels to sides. Stepped octagonal stone base. Thomas Wharton (1771-1790), a former rector of Kiddington, refers to the font in his Specimen of a History of Oxfordshire (1783) and states that it came from the "Kings Chapell" in Islip c.1780. It is now a garden ornament in Kiddington park. (Thomas Wharton, Specimen of a History of Oxfordshire (1783),p16; Kiddington park and gardens are included in H.B.M.C.E. Register of Parks and Gardens at grade II)

Listing NGR: SP4124622815

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