Bishops Itchington / Bishop's Itchington / Icetone

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the 1870s re-built church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David P Howard, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2011 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2318282] [accessed 28 January 2015]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 19688ITC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael [originally a chapel of ease to All Saints', Lower Itchington]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Church Close, Bishop's Itchington, West Midlands, CV47 2QJ -- Tel.: +44 1926 613466
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4451, 5 km SW of Southam, 11 km SSE of Leamington Spa
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Stoneleigh [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow
Additional Comments: composite font? (the present one, made up of old stones [cf. FontNotes]) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Bishops] Itchington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3857/bishops-itchington/] [accessed 28 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "By about the middle of the 12th century the church of Itchington had been attached as a prebend to the precentorship of Lichfield; which arrangement was confirmed c. 1177 by Bishop Richard Peche. [...] The old church, which originated as a chapel to the church of All Saints in Lower Itchington (destroyed by Thomas Fisher), at the beginning of the 19th century consisted of a chancel and nave, structurally undivided, with a bell-turret at the west end. Judging from the view of it in the Aylesford Collection it had no external features earlier than the 17th century. In 1834 a small brick tower was added. [...] The whole church was rebuilt in 1872 [...] The font, in the south-west corner, is octagonal and made up of old stones, probably from the arcade of the earlier church."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 607008 5786266
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.216425, -1.433655
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 59.13″ N, 1° 26′ 1.16″ W

REFERENCES

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