Dodington nr. Stringston / Dodintone

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05238DOD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Dodington, Bridgwater TA5 1LF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, S of Stringston, SE of Holford, NW of Over- and Nether-Stowey
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton and Freemanors (eastern)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is one entry for this Dodington in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1740/dodington/] [accessed 6 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [IoE Number: 265139] mentions a 15th-century enlargement of the earlier medieval church, but mentions neither font nor stoup in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "There was a church at Dodington by the late 12th century [...] The small nave may retain the 12th-century plan, the porch and the lower stages of the tower were added in the 15th century when the chancel was rebuilt. The nave was given new windows and a new roof in the 16th century"; there is no mention of font or stoup in the VCH entry. An article by Judy Nash in 'Somerset Magazine' (4/99) [http://www.dodingtonfamily.org/DHvillageHistory.htm] [accessed 18 September 2009] notes: "Close to the tower stands a well carved font with wooden cover." In an excerpt from Berta Lawrence 'Quantock Country' [ibid.] a holy-water stoup is described: "The great stone porch, where again the forester’s bugle-horns are sculptured, contains a stoup like a font, set on the grey stone bench and roughly canopied, its sides sculptured with quatrefoils enclosing a flower-motif." Neither font nor stoup is mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1585, -3.185
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 30.6″ N, 3° 11′ 6″ W
UTM: 30U 487063 5667467

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-03-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.