Hampton-in-Arden / Hantone

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Source caption: "Hampton in Arden church. Situated on the corner of Solihull Road and High Street, the church was built in C12th and added to over the centuries."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hampton in Arden church. Situated on the corner of Solihull Road and High Street, the church was built in C12th and added to over the centuries."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Jobson, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2005 by Simon Jobson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/50337] [accessed 5 December 2014]
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view of font and cover

the basin and convex stem are modern; the lower base may be an old upturned basin
Scene Description: the basin and convex stem are modern; the lower base may be an old upturned basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Argrogan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary_and_St._Bartholomew_the_font.JPG] [accessed 5 December 2014]
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view of font and cover in context

at the west end of the nave
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Argrogan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary_and_St._Bartholomew_the_font.JPG] [accessed 5 December 2014]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 07282HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary & St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Bartholomew
Church Location: High Street / Solihull Road, Hampton In Arden, Solihull B92 0AD
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4102, between the M42 and the A452, 15 km W of Coventry, in the borough of Solihull
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Coleshill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Hemlingford -- formerly Warwickshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [base only?] [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Hampton[-in-Arden] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2080/hampton-in-arden/] [accessed 5 December 2014]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "The Domesday Survey shows that there was a priest, and therefore a church, at Hampton in 1086. [...] During the episcopate of Bishop Roger of Chester (1129–49) Roger Mowbray gave to the Priory of Kenilworth the church of Hampton-in-Arden, with its chapels and other appurtenances [...] The chancel is of about mid12th-century date [...] The font is a curiously clumsy round one of uncertain age: the base may be an ancient bowl reversed, but the bowl with hollowed sides and rounded top edge is probably much later; it shows no traces of staples for a lid."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.422109, -1.699978
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 19.59″ N, 1° 41′ 59.92″ W
UTM: 30U 588403 5808783

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round flat platform with four stylised ribs atop; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907