Thatcham / Taceham / Thaecham

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4419406] [accessed 28 April 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: engraving c. 1800. 1800-1809: print, drawn and engraved by Charles Tomkins, with the caption, "Thatcham Church," which was published in "Views of Reading Abbey . . ."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 January 2010 by Sugarmonster (Marc Evans) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/18179822@N00/4253792359] [accessed 29 November 2011]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: is the base a modern replacement? re-tooled?

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01331THA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [at some point St. Luke]

Church Location: 4 Church Gate, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 3PN

Country Name: England

Location: Berkshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A4, 5 km E of Newbury, 24 km W of Reading

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Thatcham [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Reading

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church Notes: the church dedication appears to have been originally St. Mary's but was temporarily dedicated to St. Luke in the 19th century; the official dedication given in the Church of England web site [www.achurchnearyou.com/thatcham-st-mary/] [accessed 29 November 2011] is St. Mary's

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There is an entry for Thatcham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5167/thatcham/] [accessed 28 April 2015]; it mentions a church with three hides of church lands in it. Parker (1850) reports a plain Perpendicular font in the church of St. Luke's [cf. ChurchNotes], Thatcham, in the Deanery of Newbury, Berkshire. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "The church of Thatcham was held in 1086, together with 3 hides of land worth £3 a year, by two clerks. [...] Although it is described as the church of the manor of Thatcham, the geld due from the church land was paid separately, and had not been remitted with the geld from the manor. [...] The earliest detail of the present building is the south doorway, which dates from the latter half of the 12th century [...] All the internal fittings are modern." The VCH entry also notes that the baptism register starts with the year 1561, but there is no mention of a font in this entry. [NB: we have no information on font(s) of the original church here. According to the VCH entry there was a 15th-century rebuilding of this church, and a major renovation in the 1850s. The present font may be of the 15th century, though parts of it appear too neat to be original; was it restored?]. The churches of Thatcham's hamlets, Midgham St. Mattews, Cold Ash St. Mark, and Greenham St. Mary's are all modern and have modern fonts in them.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.401742, -1.259106

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 24′ 6.27″ N,, 1° 15′ 32.78″ W

UTM: 30U 621096 5695940

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: , type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850