Kinwarton / Keneuertone / Kenevertone
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 20 September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 20 September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 20 September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13845KIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Kinwarton, Warwickshire B49 6HB
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4089, 2 km NE of Alcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Ferncombe [in Domesday times] -- Hundred of Barlichway
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1316?
Century and Period: 14th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Kinwarton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1058/kinwarton/] [accessed 24 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The advowson of the church [...] was held by Ralph of Kinwarton and given by him, with the consent of his son Alexander, to the Abbey of Evesham, probably towards the close of the 12th century. [...] The font has a cup-shaped bowl with a projecting half-round mould round the rim; it is of yellow stone and has been retooled below the rim-mould, but may date from 1316. The cylindrical stem and square base of white stone seem to be later. The staples remain in the top of the font and it has a flat circular lid of three boards with two moulded cross-battens, and this is held in place by a 2 ft. 5 in. iron rod that passes through the staples and has a loop-handle and a smaller loop at the other end to receive a padlock. It is probably of the 16th century and is a remarkable survival of a pre-Reformation usage."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.222809,
-1.84771
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 13′ 22.11″ N,
1° 50′ 51.76″ W
UTM: 30U 578711 5786446
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-09-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.