Kencot / Chenetone / Kencott / Kencote
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - patterns - fluted
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: drawing or engraving; original source unknown -- in http://www.wospweb.com/site/Kencot-Village/churchhistory.doc [accessed 15 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05424KEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 17th century(mid?) [composite font], Early English? / Restoration? [composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Address: Kencot, Lechlade OX18 1PD, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4477, 6 km W of Bampton, 8 km S of Burford, 35 km E of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Additional Comments: composite font? (the VCH dates the base to the 12th-13thC; other parts are described as 17thC in some sources)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Kencot [variable spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2504/kencot/] [accessed 12 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest not church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font has the date 1642." Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font is dated 1642". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 15, 2006) notes: "Kencot had its own church by the mid 12th century, and from the 13th remained an independent parish with its own rector [...] A church was built at Kencot before the mid 12th century, the date of the earliest surviving fabric [...] and the existence of a 12th- or 13th-century font-base indicates that the church had baptismal rights then if not earlier". Noted in http://www.wospweb.com/site/Kencot-Village/churchhistory.doc [accessed 15 March 2009]: "The font is thirteenth century, the round bowl having vertical fluting on a clustered shaft; the lead lining is dated 1641 and the cover is also seventeenth century." In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "The fluted bowl is dated 1641. It stands on a cluster of shafts which may possibly be medieval. C17 cover".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 594357 5733113
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.740973, -1.633396
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 44′ 27.5″ N, 1° 38′ 0.23″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: [1642]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round platform with four raised scrolls around a central pivot
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 183
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 137 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 2 July 2007]
- 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, [unpaged -- entry 193] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 668