Kenderchurch

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design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: incised on the upper rim

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Roger Davies [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3930428] [accessed 19 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Davies, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Roger Davies [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3930428] [accessed 19 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Vigar, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2010 by John Vigar [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2085587] [accessed 19 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09632KEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Kenderchurch, Herefordshire HR2 0BE
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 16 km SW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
No entry for Kenderchurch found in the Domesday survey. RCHM Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: 152) notes: "Font: of sandstone with circular tapering bowl with projecting rim having top roughly incised with cheveron [i.e., chevron]-ornament and hole for cover fastener, plain cylindrical stem and square to octagonal base, late 12th or early 13th-century."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.950508, -2.870783
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 1.83″ N, 2° 52′ 14.82″ W
UTM: 30U 508881 5755541

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: hole for cover fastener present in the upper rim

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934