Ikanho / Icanho / Icanhoc / Ikanhoe / Ycanno

INFORMATION

FontID: 22092IKA
Church/Chapel: Benedicitine Monastery Church [disappeared]
Church Location: [cf. Directions Geo]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: disappeared monastery believed to have been somewhere near Boston
Century and Period: 7th - 8th century, Pre-Conquest
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)
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-. Accessed: 2019-04-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.