Beckington / Bechintone

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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

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

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

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 font and cover in context

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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07311BEC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Church St, Beckington, Frome BA11 6TG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by one of the pillars in the S aisle
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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

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

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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929