Kew / Ceu / Cewe / Kayhoo / Kayhor / Kayo / Kew Green / Keyowe

Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with rosettes in square panels; the upper rim is chamfered; the underbowl chamfer has a graded moulding; there is a centre ring moulding at the top of the otherwise plain octagonal stem; the lower base is octagonal and moulded. On a small quadrangular plinth. The original church was built in 1714, but the font, in a style reminiscent of the Perpendicular period, is later, either 19th- or 20th-century. The wooden font cover has an octagonal base with four tall scrolls meeting at a crown finial; the inscription suggests it is mid-20th century. The Parish web site [www.saintanne-kew.org.uk/sub pages/history.htm] [accessed 24 September 2011] notes the 1714 church was the first one on the site, but the entry in the Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "In 1522 Fox, Bishop of Winchester, at the request of Thomas Byrkis and Anne his wife, granted licence to the inhabitants of Kew to have divine service in a chapel there during the lives of Thomas and Anne, reserving to the vicar of Kingston, in whose parish it lay, all customary rights, profits, &c. [...] This chapel was possibly the stable described as formerly a chapel and granted with the capital messuage in the 16th century. In the 18th century Queen Anne gave a piece of land for a chapel of ease to Kingston (q.v.), and a church was built at the expense of the wealthier inhabitants and was consecrated in 1714 as St. Anne of Kew." [NB: not known whether the original 16th-century chapel had a font or not].