Bentworth / Bentewurda / Bintewurda / Bynteworth
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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
![or panels [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1110605015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: or panels [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Allan Soedring [www.astoft2.co.uk/bentworth.htm]
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UB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Allan Soedring [www.astoft2.co.uk/bentworth.htm]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 20?
![or panels, on the sides of the font [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120210020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: or panels, on the sides of the font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 February 2012 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Allan Soedring [www.astoft2.co.uk/bentworth.htm]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2012 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Allan Soedring [www.astoft2.co.uk/bentworth.htm]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Allan Soedring [www.astoft2.co.uk/bentworth.htm]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2012 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Allan Soedring [www.astoft2.co.uk/bentworth.htm]
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view of font context
Scene Description: showing part of the inscription
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 February 2012 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06769BEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bentworth, Alton GU34 5RE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A339, 6 km WNW of Alton, 13 km S of Basingstoke, 27 km ENE of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Odiham
Font Location in Church: inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Allan Soedring, of www.astoft.co.uk, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Bentworth in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period here; the cover, they add, "of a curious gabled shape with a terminal ball, and round the edge appears in large capitals, 'I am geven bi Martha Hunt. Anno 1605'". The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The nave arcades date from the last quarter of the 12th century [...] The font at the west end of the nave dates from the 13th century, and has a large bowl about 2 ft. 6 in. square, with five trefoiled panels on each face; the stem is octagonal, with two trefoiled panels on each face, and is flanked by four little baluster shafts with moulded capitals and bases; there is an interesting pyramidal oak cover with a carved finial, and round the base an inscription, 'I am geven bi Martha Hunt anno 1605.'
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.15643, -1.05063
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 23.15″ N, 1° 3′ 2.27″ W
UTM: 30U 636320 5669027
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in ft./in. in the VCH [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: In large capitals
Inscription Location: On the lid, around the edge
Inscription Text: "I AM GEVEN BI MARTHA HUNT. ANNO 1605"
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907); VCH (1911)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1605
Material: wood
Notes: gabled-shaped
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-06-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907