Datchet / Daceta [Domesday] / Dachet / Daget / Deccet / Docket / Dotchett
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1167229] [accessed 10 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17154DAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: The Green, Datchet, Berkshire, SL3 9JW
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B470, 3 km ESE of Eton, across the Thames from Berkshire, though now part of the latter
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Buckinghamshire -- Hundred of Stoke
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Dachet [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9877/datchet/] [accessed 10 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) reports that the Church of St. Mary "was rebuilt and enlarged, on the site of the former edifice, in 1857-60 [...] the font is octagonal and very elegantly sculptured" [presumably of the latter date]. The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912) reports all furnishings of this re-built church as modern. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "About the middle of the 12th century Datchet Church was given to St. Albans Abbey by Gilbert de Pinkney and Eustachia his wife [...] With the exception of the chancel, the church was entirely rebuilt in 1857–60 in the 'decorated' style'". [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.484774,
-0.578649
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 29′ 5.18″ N,
0° 34′ 43.13″ W
UTM: 30U 668117 5706516
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-12-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-
Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862