Kencot / Chenetone / Kencott / Kencote

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design element - patterns - fluted
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 05424KEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Kencot, Lechlade OX18 1PD, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 17th century(mid?) [composite font], Early English? / Restoration? [composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
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".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.740973, -1.633396
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 27.5″ N, 1° 38′ 0.23″ W
UTM: 30U 594357 5733113
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [1642]
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-. Accessed: 2004-07-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974