Beckington / Bechintone

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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Font, St George's Church, Beckington. The font dates from the 13th century."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St George's Church, Beckington. The font dates from the 13th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2008 by Maigheach-gheal [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/681180] [accessed 9 September 2009]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "Beckington Church (St. George), 1 November 2015. The tower is 12th Century Norman, the chancel is 14th Century Decorated, the clestoried nave, north and south aisles and south chapel are 15th Century Perpendicular. Victorian restoration (1873) by Piers St. Aubyn. Pictured is the west tower, north aisle and north porch. Note the blind Norman arcading on the top tier of the tower. The window at the base of the tower is 15th Century Perpendicular insertion into a larger Norman one, the arch of which can be seem above. Although the tower has corner buttresses, there seems to be an odd, cruder buttress on the north lower side of the tower."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Beckington Church (St. George), 1 November 2015. The tower is 12th Century Norman, the chancel is 14th Century Decorated, the clestoried nave, north and south aisles and south chapel are 15th Century Perpendicular. Victorian restoration (1873) by Piers St. Aubyn. Pictured is the west tower, north aisle and north porch. Note the blind Norman arcading on the top tier of the tower. The window at the base of the tower is 15th Century Perpendicular insertion into a larger Norman one, the arch of which can be seem above. Although the tower has corner buttresses, there seems to be an odd, cruder buttress on the north lower side of the tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 November 2015 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beckington_Church_(St._George)_(22858487907).jpg] [accessed 21 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St George's Church, Beckington"
Scene Description: Source caption: "St George's Church, Beckington"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Martin, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2016 by David Martin [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5026315] [accessed 21 February 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Beckington Church (St. George), 1 November 2015. The tower is 12th Century Norman, the chancel is 14th Century Decorated, the clestoried nave, north and south aisles and south chapel are 15th Century Perpendicular. Victorian restoration (1873) by Piers st. Aubyn. Pictured is the nave looking towards the chancel. The timber roof is of tie beam and queen post construction and dates from 1470."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Beckington Church (St. George), 1 November 2015. The tower is 12th Century Norman, the chancel is 14th Century Decorated, the clestoried nave, north and south aisles and south chapel are 15th Century Perpendicular. Victorian restoration (1873) by Piers st. Aubyn. Pictured is the nave looking towards the chancel. The timber roof is of tie beam and queen post construction and dates from 1470."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 1 November 2015 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beckington_Church_(St._George)_(23252632855).jpg] [accessed 21 February 2023]
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view of font and cover in context

Source caption: "Beckington Church (St. George), 1 November 2015. Pictured is the 13th Century Early English octagonal font with nine detached shafts around main shaft."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Beckington Church (St. George), 1 November 2015. Pictured is the 13th Century Early English octagonal font with nine detached shafts around main shaft."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 1 November 2015 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beckington_Church_(St._George)_(22956786280).jpg] [accessed 21 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0 Generic

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07311BEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by one of the pillars in the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Address: Church St, Beckington, Frome BA11 6TG, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A36-A361, 5 km NE of Frome, 17-18 km SE of Bath
Historical Region: formerly Wiltshire / Hundred of Frome [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Beckington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8051/beckington/] [accessed 21 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "an ancient font" in this church. Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "fine old Norman font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Wade & Wade (1929) write: "A fine octagonal E.E. font stands in the S. aisle." Described in Pevsner (1958): "Plain, octagonal; circular stem surrounded by eight plain circular shafts. Perhaps C13 (cf. Wellow)." Noted in the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (Recent Grants report of 16 March 2006): "a font, possibly from C13". Stands on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern, probably 19th-century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST8016651639] notes: "Parish church. Predominantly Perpendicular, Norman west tower; C14 chancel with late C15 south chapel, clerestoried mid C15 nave with north and south aisles, each with a porch; restoration of 1873 [...] C13 octagonal font on 9 detached shafts." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): no details [source given: Dr. G. Dru Drury].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 549851 5679370
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.2635, -2.2855
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 15′ 48.6″ N, 2° 17′ 7.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Beckington/index.html [accessed 21 September 2009]]
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227
  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 114
  • Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 75
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 141
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 2 March 2008]