Kingsey / Eie / Kingehesey / Kingesey / Kingeshay / Kingesie

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view of font

the modern font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cliff & Monica Robinson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Cliff & Monica Robinson, in the St. Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1354/5/] [accessed 4 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Daniels, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Steve Daniels [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3888628] [accessed 4 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17311KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Risborough Road, Kingsey, Buckinghamshire, HP17 8LY
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A418, just S of Haddenham, 3 km E of Thame, by the Oxon border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ixhill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon -- in Oxfordshire until 1933
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original (?) 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Kingsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7406/kingsey/] [accessed 4 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in i it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font is a small marble bason, supported by pedestal." Sheahan (1862) mentions that font and adds: "The Church (St. Nicholas) is a small plain structure, rebuilt about 1800, on the site of the old fabric" The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The advowson of Kingsey Church was alienated from the manor and given to Rochester Priory by Gilbert de Bolebec in the time of Henry III [i.e., 1216-1272]", with no reference at all to the earlier church fabric: "The church [...] is a modern building in the style of the 15th century, erected in 1892–3, to replace a late 18th-century church, much of the old material being re-used." The VCH (ibid.) does not mention any font in the modern church. The present font, an octagonal basin raised on coloured marble colonnettes, is modern and must have replaced the one noted in Lipscomb [cf. supra] in the late-19th century re-building of this church. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 643321 5735629
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7532, -0.9236
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 45′ 11.52″ N, 0° 55′ 24.96″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843, vol. 1: 303
  • 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. 395