Grendon nr. Warwick/ Grendone

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view of church exterior - south view

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 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

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]

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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

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 font and cover

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 14461GRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Atherstone Road, Grendon, Warwickshire, West Midlands, CV9 3DP

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the chancel arch

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches, for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.605131, -1.577648

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 18.47″ N, 1° 34′ 39.53″ W

UTM: 30U 596321 5829296

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-. Accessed: 2009-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.