Rowington / Rochintone / Rownton

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Aidan MacRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13210589/4816678_orig.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Laurence's Church, Rowington. The north side of the church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2013 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3396642] [accessed 25 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Laurence's Church, Rowington. The south side of the church from the edge of the churchyard, which is bounded by a high retaining wall."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2013 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3394766] [accessed 25 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: N/A FONT+COVER digital photograph taken by Aidan MacRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13210589/4816678_orig.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2014]

Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858)

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858)

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the old cover on the font

Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858)

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: notice the modern cover on the font; the lower base and plinth are modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan MacRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13210589/4816678_orig.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07278ROW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [aka St. Laurence's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Old Warwick Road, Rowington, Warwickshire CV35 7AA

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just E of the M40, between Hatton and Lapworth, 10 km NW of Warwick

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Fernecombe {in Domesday] -- Hundred of Barlichway

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry or Rowington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2069/rowington/] [accessed 25 November 2014]; it reports a priest but mentions no church in it, though there probably was one there. The entry for this parish in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858) informs that "It had a church at the period of the Norman Conquest" [cf. supra], a church that had been "granted to the Abbey of Reading, in the reign of Henry I" [i.e., 1100-1135]; it also notes and illustrates the old font: "This stands near the north door and consists of a large basin of a truncated cone-like form, two feet seven inches and a half diameter at the top, nine inches deep leaded within. The font cover has a of pendant and is with scroll work: this cover is of seventeeth century." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a plain baptismal font of the Norman period in the shape of a truncated cone. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The church of Rowington was given with the manor to Reading Abbey, to which it was appropriated at an early date. In 1291 the rectory was worth £13 6s. 8d. [...] The parish church [...] is of more than average interest both for its architectural detail and the abnormal development of its plan. The earliest part of the present structure was a nave of unusual proportions, 46 ft. long by 29 ft. wide. The two plain traceried windows in the south wall belonged to it, as well as the blocked lancet in the west wall, and are probably of late-13th-century date; but the north wall may be the relic of a still earlier church. [...] The font is of the 12th century and is of flower-pot shape with a moulded top-edge; it has no lead lining." [NB: it had been reported ca. 1858 as having a leaded interior [cf. supra]]. The present cover is round, flat and plain, with overlap; it has two metal ring handles atop; it is much to big for this font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.321425, -1.702126

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 17.13″ N, 1° 42′ 7.66″ W

UTM: 30U 588458 5797582

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined [cf. FontNotes]

Diameter (includes rim): 78.75 cm*

Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * in ft/in in Notices... (vol. 2, 1858) NB: source does not specify whether the diameter is interior or exterior]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: old font cover reported ca. 1858 -- new cover on now [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee, Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Rivington, London; [etc.]: Henry T. Cooke, 1847-