Bentley / Beneclege / Beneclei / Benedlei / Benetlegh / Benetlye / Bentley nr. Farnham / Beonaet / Beonetlet / Bintungom

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

Scene Description: very shallow carving, all around the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2012 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Church,_Bentley,_Hampshire_17.JPG] [accessed 3 July 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font - southeast view

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view of font and cover - east side

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view of font and cover in context - east view

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06754BEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [aka Our Lady]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Bentley, Hampshire GU10, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A31, 8 km SW of Farnham, 10 km NE of Alton, about 40 km ENE of Winchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester? / Guildford?

Historical Region: Hundred of Crondall -- Hundred of Broughton [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Bentley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3129/bentley/] [accessed 3 July 2017], none of which mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The oldest parts belong to the 12th century, and the plan until modern times was rather an unusual one. The aisleless nave and chancel were enlarged about 1180 by the addition of a north chapel, and a corresponding chapel was added on the south some sixty years later. The tower was apparently a late 12th-century addition, but the nave remained aisleless till 1835, when a south aisle was built. This was rebuilt in 1890, having become ruinous, and a north aisle of the same size added. [...] The square Purbeck marble bowl of the font is of late 12th-century date with shallow round-headed panels on each face. The stem and base, with four small flanking shafts, are modern." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP7396140752] reports: "the nave is Victorian, and contains a Norman Purbeck arcaded font on a Victorian Early English base." A reference to this font from "Some Ancient Churches in North East Hampshire" (comp. by Sue Allden et al. and published by John Owen Smith) is reported in the www.headley1.demon.co.uk/churches site: "Within the church there is an interesting early 12th century table top font, made of Purbeck marble, with a rounded arch on each of the sides". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font basin made of Purbeck marble, now on a modern stem [source given: VCH, 4, 1911]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.19655, -0.879

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 47.58″ N, 0° 52′ 44.4″ W

UTM: 30U 648193 5673820

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: yes; counterweight

Notes: flat square platform with raised stylised four-rib top

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-06-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975