Bathampton / Hantune
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2018 by John Wilkes
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: the modern font
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: the modern font
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2018 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 8
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of font
Scene Description: the old font in the churchyard in Feruary / March 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2010 by Robiin Downes for the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3388/] [accessed 6 October 2018]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font in the churchyard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © bathdailyphoto2, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by bathdailyphoto2, 2007, in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25686691@N00/421392661/] [accessed 6 April 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13386BAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century? Or 19th century?, [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: In the porch? [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: 13thC church; 15thC tower; restored 18th, 19thC
Church Address: Mill Lane / Church Cl, Bathampton, Bath BA2 6TU, UK -- Tel.: +44 1225 442311
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A36, just E of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Bath
Additional Comments: disused font in the garden; in the porch at some point?; NB: it is not clear that the medieval disused basin was originally a font; the base is said to be a staddle stone
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Bathampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7766/bathampton/] [accessed 6 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis (1876) reports only a disused font: "In the garden is the bowl of an ancient font". No font is mentioned in Wade & Wade (1929). The octagonal font in Bathampton St. Nicholas is in the Perpendicular style, but is it 15th-century, or 19th? The basin sides are decorated with floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils; the underbowl has graded mouldings; the stem of the base has rectangular panels, while the lower base is moulded. The striking wooden font cover is certainly of the latter period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7772266536] reports a Victorian font in it, but there is a separate entry for this old object in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7771766525] that refers to an object in the porch: "Former Font, now churchyard furniture. Late mediaeval. Circular ashlar bowl standing on a pyramidal base (possibly a staddle stone)." [NB: there is an old cylindrical object resembling the basin of a font in the churchyard serving as a flowerpot -- The web pages of the Benefice of St. Nicholas, Bathampton and St. Mary the Virgin, Claverton [http://www.stnicholasandstmarys.org.uk/St_Nicholas_History.html] [accessed 9 September 2009] confirm that the object in the churchyard is still there and it is an "ancient font".]] Robin Downes, visiting this church in February and March 2010 for the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3388/] [accessed 6 October 2018] writes: "Old font in churchyard [...] Possible former font outside church W of S porch, used as a planter for flowers."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 547190 5694248
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.3975, -2.321667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 23′ 51″ N, 2° 19′ 18″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Lewis, Harold, The Chuch Rambler : a series of articles on the churches in the neighbourhood of Bath, London; Bath: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; William Lewis, The Herald Office, 1876, p. 477