Kingstone nr. Hereford / Chingestune [Domesday] (Herefordshire)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the only decoration on this font

view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2156472] [accessed 21 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2156895] [accessed 21 July 2017]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 07264KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and Alll Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Green Lane, Kingstone, Herefordshire, HR2 9HB
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just off the B4348, S of the B4349, about 12 km SW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stretford [Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Kingstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO4235/kingstone/] [accessed 21 July 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The font here is described in (Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. I: xlii, 163) as "a very primitive example [..] with irregular circular bowl of breccia on short, moulded stem, perhapsd a re-used capital, base of freestone, probably 13th-century on modern step." Described in Halsey (1987: 107-109) as one of eight baptismal fonts "made of a local reddish brown, psammitic limestone, called 'Breccia' or 'Cornstone'", that were the work of the Herefordshire School [NB: the eight fonts are: Bishops Frome, Bosbury, Bredwardine, Kilpeck, Kingstone, Madley, Turnastone and Vowchurch]. Halsey (ibid.) describes the basin "rather like a spherical boulder" and smaller than the other fonts in this group; it is raised "on a low circular plinth supported by a late thirteenth century step".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.015821, -2.840721
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 56.96″ N, 2° 50′ 26.6″ W
UTM: 30U 510931 5762810

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (psammitic limestone)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934
Halsey, Richard, "Eight Herefordshire marble fonts", Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1987