Binfield / Benefeud / Benetfelde / Benifeld / Bentfield / Bynfylde

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Binfield parish church opposite the junction of Church Hill and Terrace Road North. Like many churches it is set a distance away from the village it serves."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Hunt, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2014 by Alan Hunt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4185490] [accessed 19 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17746BIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Hill, Binfield, Berkshire, RG42 5NS
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 7 km E of Wokingham, 13 SE of Reading
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cookham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (early?) [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: the church of St. Mark is modern
No entry found for this Binfield in the Domesday survey. A report on the Proceedings of Societies published in the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal (vol. 17, no. 3, October 1911: 94) mentions a visit to the church at Binfield and the presence of an "old Norman font" there. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "The church of Binfield appears to have been one of the chapels of Cookham given by Henry I [1100-1135] to the abbey of Cirencester[...] Only the font remains to suggest the existence of a church here before the first half of the 15th century [...] The font is plain and has an old cylindrical bowl on a modern octagonal stem."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.442405, -0.78515
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 26′ 32.66″ N, 0° 47′ 6.54″ W
UTM: 30U 653924 5701351

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.