Kintbury / Cheneteberie / Chinchebiri / Cynatangbyrig / Cynetanbyrig / Kenetbiri / Kenetebury / Kentberry / Kentebury / Kinbury

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605911] [accessed 26 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605911] [accessed 26 May 2015]

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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: the basin is the only original part of the font; the rest is modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605884] [accessed 26 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church, Kintbury. The church dates from C12 and the tower from C13. The whole was restored in the C19 by George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) and Thomas Garner (1839-1906)."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4434746] [accessed 26 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: most of the present church is 19thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605917] [accessed 26 May 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the composite font: only the basin is original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605911] [accessed 26 May 2015]

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view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: the composite font; only the basin is original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the composite font between the pillars of the tower arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605945] [accessed 26 May 2015]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: the composite font; only the basin is original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 July 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 05958KIN

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

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Street, Kintbury, Berkshire, RG17 9TR

Country Name: England

Location: Berkshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located just S of Avington and the A4, 10 km W of Newbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Kintbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kintbury Eagle

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, between the pillars of the tower arch

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Kintbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3866/kintbury/] [accessed 26 May 2015], neither of which mentons cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "No church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but the reference to the 'servants of God' and 'the holy place' here in 931 [...] makes it probable that there was a minster or oratory here. The advowson seems from early days to have been in the hands of the nuns of Amesbury, being granted with the manor to the nuns of Fontevrault in 1179 [...] and confirmed to them by King John [...] and Henry III" [i.e., 1199-1216 and 1216-1272, respectively] [...] The church was nearly divested of all its original architectural features in 1859 [...] The south doorway and possibly the chancel arch are of 12th-century date, and the tower is a little later, having been added c. 1200. The west doorway, in so far as it is original, may be the doorway of the 12th-century nave re-used. [...] The font has a plain octagonal stone bowl on a modern stem and base, and may be ancient. It was lined with lead in 1886." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts of the 14th or 15th century that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.400834, -1.450681

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 24′ 3″ N, 1° 27′ 2.45″ W

UTM: 30U 607773 5695540

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928