Avon Dassett / Derceto

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2008 by Graham Taylor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/908789] [accessed 7 January 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4190] [accessed 7 January 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover; mid-19thC?

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19628DAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Avon Dassett, Warwickshire CV47 2AP

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the B4100, 20 km NW of Banbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Hunesberi [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kington

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of church and modern font

Church Notes: original church here by 1086; Norman building replaced 1868; church made redundant May 1983; in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Avon] Dassett [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP4150/avon-dassett/] [accessed 7 January 2015], and it reports a pries, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The Domesday Survey mentions a priest, implying a church, at Avon Dassett [...] The old church having become dilapidated was pulled down and rebuilt in 1868. Only a small portion of the ancient material was re-used. [...] The font, of grey marble, and other furniture are modern." The present font appears to be made of 'Purbeck marble', a type of limestone; it consists of an octagonal basin with chamfered top and moulded underbowl, raised on a moulded pedestal base, also octagonal, and a splaying lower base of the same shape. Wooden font cover, probably contemporary [i.e., mid-19thC], octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1465, -1.4019

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 47.4″ N, 1° 24′ 6.84″ W

UTM: 30U 609348 5778537

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-01-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.