Long Bennington / Beninctun / Beningtone

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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: motifs decorating the sides of the underbowl where the colonnettes of the base meet the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 23 December 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the base

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view of basin and cover - west side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2016 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/28928961735/] [accessed 23 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 January 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3305529] [accessed 23 December 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking down the 14c south aisle past the 12c font - Church of St Swithin, Long Bennington"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2016 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/28928961735/] [accessed 23 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover here appears to be just a platform to hold the vase; the font has another cover, wooden and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 12700BEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun

Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Church Location: 1 Church Ln, Long Bennington, Newark NG23 5EU, UK -- Tel.: 01400 281281

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, 8 km S of Newark-on-Trent, 11-12 km N of Grantham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Loveden

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle, W end

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [Long] Bennington [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK8344/long-bennington/] [accessed 23 December 2018] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, plain bowl on three short polygonal pillars. Between the capitals and the underside of the bowl bunches of stiff-leaf. So it seems to be E[arly] E[nglish]." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK8435843882] notes: "Parish Church. Early C13, C14, C15, C19, restored 1902-3 by Scorer and Gamble. [...] C12 octagonal stone font on short polygonal pillars with polygonal capitals with C12 stiff leaf capitals set above."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9854, -0.745

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 59′ 7.44″ N, 0° 44′ 42″ W

UTM: 30U 651374 5873025

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989