Edgcott / Achecot / Achecote / Attchecott / Eggecote / Hachekote / Hecchecota
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2008 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/658847] [accessed 14 January 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17303EDG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: St Michael's Close, Edgcott, Buckinghamshire HP18 0TU
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 13 km E of Bicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Edgcott [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6722/edgcott/] [accessed 14 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) reportes a plain octagonal font in this "plain but venerable edifice". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The plan of the present building is probably the result of the gradual rebuilding of a 12th-century church [...] The earliest recorded presentation to the church was made between 1209 and 1219 by the lord of the manor [...] The plain octagonal font is of the 15th century".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8995, -1.0131
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 58.2″ N, 1° 0′ 47.16″ W
UTM: 30U 636700 5751726
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Gardner, Samuel, A Guide to English Gothic Architecture (illustrated by numerous drawings & photographs), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925
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