Checkendon No. 1 / Cecadene / Checkenden / Chakendon

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond in 2006 [www.bastonfamily.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received from the author (e-mail of 14 September 2006)

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond in 2006 [www.bastonfamily.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received from the author (e-mail of 14 September 2006)

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond in 2006 [www.bastonfamily.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received from the author (e-mail of 14 September 2006)

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Keyser (1918: fig. 57)

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond in 2006 [www.bastonfamily.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received from the author (e-mail of 14 September 2006)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09468CHE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Parkside, Checkendon, Reading RG8 0SR, United Kingdom -- Tel.:: +44 1491 680252

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A4074, about 10 km NW of Reading (dir. Oxford)

Ecclesiastic Region: Dioscese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Langtree [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carol Harmond (nee Baston], of www.bastonfamily.co.uk, for the photograph of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Checkendon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6683/checkendon/] [accessed 22 March 2023]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Keyser (1918): "The font at the south corner of the nave is of Perpendicular date [...] with octagonal basin with raised moulding round the verge and above the stem; octagonal stem nd plinth." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]". Church listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU6631683041]: "Church. C12 nave, chancel and apse; C15 west tower and south porch [...] C16 font" [no stoup mentioned in the entry]. [cf. Index entry for Checkenden No. 2 for a stoup of about the same date in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5424, -1.045

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 32.64″ N, 1° 2′ 42″ W

UTM: 30U 635570 5711956

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: stylised pyramid; modern

REFERENCES

Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of South Stoke, North Stoke, Ipsden and Checkendon. Oxfordshire", New Series vol. XXIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1918, pp. [1]-32; p. 31 and fig. 63

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974