Ickenham / Ticheham
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Scene Description: the rather eerie decoration on the stem of the font
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Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles Church is in the heart of the old village of Ickenham and set back a little from the main road. It is a typical small aiseless church which is common in what was Middlesex. The bell turret has four bells. the earliest dating from 1510. Much of the church dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was enlarged early in the 16th century by a north aisle as wide and nearly as long as the rest of the church. Particularly interesting (according to Pevsner) are "the rustic timber-framed south porch and the pretty little timber bell-turret". The interior has a fine timber roof. The Jacobean wooden font is said to have been recovered from Swakelys where it was being used as a tea caddy or work table."
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Scene Description: As the source caption suggests, "An unusual wooden font". -- It is said to have come originally from Swakeleys where it served as tea-caddy and work-table
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12876ICK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: 38 Swakeleys Rd, Ickenham, Uxbridge UB10 8BE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1895 622971
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (B466-B467 crossroads, 3-4 km NE of Axbridge, in the London Borough of Hillingdon; the church is located in the centre of Ickenham, at the Swakeleys Rd with Long Ln intersection
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: fHundred of Elthorne -- formerly Middlesex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [is it moveable?]
Century and Period: 17th century(late?),
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
There are three entries for Ickenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0786/ickenham/] [accessed 11 June 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner (1951) notes "the font a good oak-carved octagonal piece of late C17 date". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 4, 1971) notes: "There was a church in Ickenham by the mid 13th century [...] The medieval church consisted of a chancel (16 ft. by 12 ft.) and a nave (32 ft. by 16½ ft.), both built in the later 14th century; they retain a south doorway and several restored windows of this date [...] The church was restored in the 1870s [...] The carved wooden font dates from the late 17th century and is believed to have come from Swakeleys" [the VCH entry is footnoted: "Kingston, op. cit. 12" [i.e., P.D. Kingston, Parish and Church of St. Giles, Ickenham (2nd ed.)]] A local source [not traceable claims it had been used as work table or tea-caddy in Swakeleys].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.5653,
-0.4439
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 33′ 55.08″ N,
0° 26′ 38.04″ W
UTM: 30U 677159 5715788
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
wood, oak
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: appears to be in the same style and of the same period as the font
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951