Grendon nr. Warwick/ Grendone
Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/14347645377/in/set-72157645027308898l] [accessed 5 December 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/14547621083/in/set-72157645027308898] [accessed 5 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the top of the font and its cover are visible in the foreground, left side, behind the railling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/14504392826/in/set-72157645027308898] [accessed 5 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font and its cover are visible by the south pillar of the chancel arch, just behind the man in the cap and blue shirt
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/14524111471/in/set-72157645027308898] [accessed 5 December 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14461GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the chancel arch
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Atherstone Road, Grendon, Warwickshire, West Midlands, CV9 3DP
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the county border with Leicestershire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Coleshill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Hemlingford
Additional Comments: disused font? (the one serving as flower vase near the chancel arch) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Grendon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK2800/grendon/] [accessed 5 December 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "The remains of thick walls east of the arcades indicate a 12th-century origin of the nave, but no details of this period survive. The chancel, which leans to the south of the nave-axis, was rebuilt and enlarged early in the 13th century […] The font is modern, but near the chancel arch is a disused font of the 15th century with a plain octagonal bowl; it had been discarded and used as a flower-vase." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK2872000918] (1968) reports two fonts as well: "Simple C15 octagonal font. C18 marble font with oval basin." [NB: a recent photograph [cf. Images Area] of the 15th-century font shows it in apparent use again, protected with a new wooden cover].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches, for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 596321 5829296
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.605131, -1.577648
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 18.47″ N, 1° 34′ 39.53″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with a Latin cross laid horizontally on top
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.