Edgcott / Achecot / Achecote / Attchecott / Eggecote / Hachekote / Hecchecota
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2008
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
Font ID: 17303EDG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: St Michael's Close, Edgcott, Buckinghamshire HP18 0TU
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km E of Bicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
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
UTM: 30U 636700 5751726
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8995, -1.0131
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 58.2″ N, 1° 0′ 47.16″ W
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, Buckingham, vol. 4: 168-170 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp168-170] [accessed 14 January 2016]
- 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. 274