Datchet / Daceta [Domesday] / Dachet / Daget / Deccet / Docket / Dotchett
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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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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1173987] [accessed 10 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17154DAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Green, Datchet, Berkshire, SL3 9JW
Site Location: Berkshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: Dachet has been in Berkshire since 1974; prev. in Bucks -- disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 668117 5706516
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.484774, -0.578649
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 29′ 5.18″ N, 0° 34′ 43.13″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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-, p. 114
- 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, p. 857-858