Checkendon No. 2 / Cecadene / Checkenden / Chakendon

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Scene Description: [unknown whether human, animal...]

INFORMATION

FontID: 09794CHE
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: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Langtree [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: In the NE corner of the porch
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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

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

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; r["References"]