Bathampton / Hantune

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Scene Description: the modern font

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Scene Description: the modern font

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Scene Description: the font in the churchyard

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Scene Description: the old font in the churchyard in Feruary / March 2010

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Scene Description: the modern font

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Scene Description: the modern font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13386BAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Mill Lane / Church Cl, Bathampton, Bath BA2 6TU, UK -- Tel.: +44 1225 442311

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A36, just E of Bath

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Bath

Font Location in Church: In the porch? [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century? Or 19th century?, [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font

Church Notes: 13thC church; 15thC tower; restored 18th, 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.3975, -2.321667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 23′ 51″ N, 2° 19′ 18″ W

UTM: 30U 547190 5694248

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. Accessed: 2018-10-06 00:00:00. 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