Kington Magna / Great Kington / Kington Plukene
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11326KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Kington Magna
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Hill, Kington Magna, Gillingham SP8 5EG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1747 838494
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A30, 11-12 km W of Shaftesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / discarded font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font has a round bowl, on a circular stem and square step." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/kingtonmagna.htm]: the font consists of a plain cylindrical basin, raised on a cylindrical pedestal decorated with roll mouldings at the ends, on a square lower base. Flat wooden cover with metal ornamentation, and like the font, probably from the Victorian re-make of this church in the 1860s [NB: part of the church goes back at least to the 15th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 71