Kings Worthy No. 2 / King's Worthy / Kingsworthy / Kyngswordeye / Ordie / Worthy

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches - cinquefoiled arches

Scene Description: Two arches on each side of the octagonal shaft of the base.

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 December 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2306550] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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design element - architectural - tracery

Scene Description: All four of the visible sides of the basin have different tracery motifs, one with a shield inside the motif.

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 December 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2306550] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: notice the former base of an earlier [Norman?] font now serving as plinth for the later, Decorated, font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 December 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2306550] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church Grade 2* listed. Early c13th west tower and some c13th windows. Main alterations 1849 and 1864 (Colson, cathedral architect, and Vokes, local builder) and 1884."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Horn, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2010 by Graham Horn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1778822] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Burchell, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2013 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary's_Church_tower,_Kings_Worthy.JPG] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Cattell, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2010 by Mike Cattell [www.flickr.com/photos/27406286@N05/4427275536] [accessed 2 August 2011]

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view of font

Scene Description: the later font stands on an old lower base, showing it at floor level when the drawing was made, the base of an earlier font (Norman?) with central shaft and four outer colonnettes

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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03455KIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: London Rd, Kings Worthy, Winchester SO23 7QL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1962 881879
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the junction where the A34 and the M3 part, just NNE of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Barton Stacey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, centre of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [basin only] -- 12th century [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is an entry for [Kings] Worthy [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4932/kings-worthy/] [accessed 6 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) describe a beautiful baptismal font of the reign of Edward III [1327+] ornamented with different types of tracery on the basin panels in this church. Described and illustrated in Paley (1844): octagonal mounted font from the 14th century in the Decorated style, but the lower base belonged to a Norman font. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The octagonal font dates from the early years of the 15th century, each face of the bowl being panelled with quatrefoils inclosing shields or with traceried circles; the stem has on each face two long cinquefoiled panels, and stands upon a Purbeck marble base belonging to a font of late 12th-century type, with a bowl carried on a central and four flanking shafts." The eight sides of the basin are ornamented with different tracery motifs, at least one of them including a shield; the underbowl is chamfered and decorated with rool mouldings; the stem of the base is octagonal, each side with two tall cinquefoil arches; the lower base [cf. VCH infra] is also octagonal and the plinth, round with four protrusions at 90-degree angles.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.08813, -1.2978
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 17.27″ N, 1° 17′ 52.08″ W
UTM: 30U 619388 5660972

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Basin Total Height: 42.5 cm
Height of Base: 55 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 97.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844