Checkendon No. 2 / Cecadene / Checkenden / Chakendon

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09794CHE
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: In the NE corner of the porch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Parkside, Checkendon, Reading RG8 0SR, United Kingdom -- Tel.:: +44 1491 680252
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A4074, about 10 km NW of Reading (dir. Oxford)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Langtree [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged stoup: mutilated bowl
Font Notes:
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. 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]. A holy-water stoup in this church is described in Keyser (1918: 32) as a "stoup with mutilated bowl and head below" located in the northeast corner of the porch [cf. Index entry for Checkenden No. 1 for a baptismal font of the same period in this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 635570 5711956
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.5424, -1.045
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 32′ 32.64″ N, 1° 2′ 42″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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. 32