page_title: Oxhey Chapel
section_title: Interior
hierarchical_section_title: Oxhey Chapel / Architecture / Interior
caption_attribution_description: English: Oxhey Chapel - Font
context_page_description: Oxhey Chapel is a redundant Anglican chapel in Oxhey, a suburb of Watford, Hertfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The chapel stands, surrounded by 1940s housing in South Oxhey between a modern church and its vicarage, some 2 miles south of the centre of Watford.
context_section_description: The chapel contains a double row of stalls facing each other in collegiate fashion.  The west door is surrounded by a doorcase consisting of carved Corinthian pilasters and an entablature.  The reredos contains two twisted Solomonic columns framing panels containing the Ten Commandments, and outside them are panels with the Lord's Prayer and the Creed.  At the top of the reredos is an open pediment enclosing a flaming urn.  Above the central panels is a cartouche, and over the side panels are smaller closed pediments.  The sanctuary is paved with black and white marble.  The roof is in five bays.  The wooden font dates from the 17th century.  It has an octagonal base, a richly carved circular bowl, and a dome-shaped cover.  From the roof hangs an eight-branch candelabrum.  In the chapel is a wall tomb to Sir James Altham, who died in 1616, and his last wife Helen, who died in 1638. It consists of two praying figures facing each other in an alabaster and marble frame, consisting of Corinthian columns and an open segmental pediment containing a cartouche flanked by obelisks.  At the west end is a marble memorial tablet to John Askill Bucknall dated 1797 by C. Regnant.
caption: The font
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