Ikanho / Icanho / Icanhoc / Ikanhoe / Ycanno

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22092IKA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 7th - 8th century, Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Benedicitine Monastery Church [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Notes: "built by St. Botolph at Ikanho, probably somewhere near the town of Boston. The English Chronicle dates the foundation in the year 654." (VCH)
Church Address: [cf. Directions Geo]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: disappeared monastery believed to have been somewhere near Boston
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (of the ca. 654 disappeared monastery church here)
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) writes "built by St. Botolph at Ikanho, probably somewhere near the town of Boston. The English Chronicle dates the foundation in the year 654.[...] The monastery continued probably until the devastation of this part of the country by the Danes, near the end of the ninth century. It was never rebuilt." Allen's History of the county of Lincoln [...] (Licoln, 1834) places Ikanho, aka IKanhoe, near Lincoln. [NB; we have no information on the font of the monastery church here]

REFERENCES

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