Hardington Mandeville

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hardington Mandeville Parish Council, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.hardington.net/hardington/General/Gallery.asp] [accessed 16 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13428HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1123?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [The Annunciation?]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A30, 6 km NE of Crewkerne
Additional Comments: moved font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
An "ancient Norman font" is reported in this church in Kelly's Directory of 1883. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman. Foot with one cable-moulding; at the top of the bowl a band of lozenges." Wade & Wade (1929) report "a good Norm[an] arch and font" in this church. The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=263726] [accessed 21 September 2009] notes: "circular font of possibly 1123, with cable mould around waisted base and lozenge ornamental band below rim". Noted in the Parish web site [http://www.hardington.net/hardington/General/Church.asp] [accessed 18 March 2008]: "The font is late Norman, and was moved from opposite the south entrance and placed on a new pediment in the general rebuilding in 1864".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 224
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 190-191
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]