Ketton / Chetene / Keten / Ketene

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view of font and cover

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view of font

Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 9)

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design element - motifs - tracery

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/ketton-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 23 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01843KET

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the westermost arch of the N arcade

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Church Road, Ketton, Rutland, PE9 3RD

Site Location: Rutland, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located about 5-6 km SW of Stanford on the A6121

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Witchley [in Domesday] -- East Humdred

Additional Comments: disappeared fot? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Ketton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9804/ketton/] [accessed 23 July 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church, in it, though there probably was one there. Paley (1844) notes a font of the Decorated period on a five-support base here. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a handsome baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "There was a priest at Ketton at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086). [...] The church is, in the main, a 13th-century rebuilding of a Norman fabric, which itself may have been a late 12th-century rebuilding of an earlier structure. [...] The 14th-century font has an octagonal bowl with incised window-tracery panels, on a central cylindrical stem and rectangular legs with moulded bases." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Octagonal, with flat blank two-light arches with circles, all surfaces decorated with very flat leaf-work." In the sides of the octagonal basin "conventional foliage is mingled with simple forms of tracery, resembling two lancets with a quatrefoil in a circle above". The base consists of a central shaft and four corner columns, all polygonal (octagonal?). The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth with a square upper level.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha] for the photographs of this font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 665680 5833559

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.6267, -0.5521

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 36.12″ N, 0° 33′ 7.56″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 15
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 476
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29, 90 and fig. 9 on p. 31