Seacourt / Sekworth / Seofecanwyrthe / Seovecurt / Seuekwrth / Seuacoorde / Sevacoorde / Sevecheworda / Sevecowrthe / Sevecurt / Sewecourte / Sewkeworth

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17734SEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [destroyed in the 15thC]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Deserted village located just W of Binsey, NW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Hormer
Additional Comments: disapeared font? (the one from the disappeared 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Seacourt [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4807/seacourt/] [accessed 2 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 2011] notes: "The church of Seacourt was in existence in the year 1200 [...] At some time before 1396 the church must have been appropriated to the priory and a vicarage ordained. [...] In 1439 the vicarage was pronounced to be 'without cure' on the ground that the church had collapsed and that there were only two inhabited houses." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 617391 5735825

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.