Hinton St. George / Hantone

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - moulding - double

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design element - patterns - ribbed

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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - coat of arms - Poulett family

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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - emblem - cross

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Parish Church of St George - Hinton St George. Some early work of the C13 by masons of Wells cathedral is present, but the church is mainly C15 and early C16. The tower is C15, and was built in 1485-95. Inside, there are many fine monuments and tombs of the Poulett family."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13430HIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Church St, Hinton Saint George TA17 8SP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A30, 3-4 km NW of Crewkerne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Crewkerne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-carved in the 15th century?], Late Norman? / Early English? [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is an entry for Hinton [St George] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4112/hinton-st-george/] [accessed 13 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) write: "The font is carved with shields bearing alternately a cross and the Poulett arms." Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Late Norman." The basin is cylindrical, with shields in quatrefoils all around the sides, alternating a coat of arms [cf. supra] and the emblem of the Cross; a protruding band of foliage decorates the lower rim, and it projects on the underbowl a pattern of ribs towards the stem; the basin is raised on a round stem decorated with trefoiled arches or windows all around, and on a moulded circular lower base. Square plinth with chamfered angles. The Somerset Historic Environment Record (No. 58980) (1986) [http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=58980] [accessed 16 March 2008] notes: "C13 font had bowl decorated in C15". [NB: the design of this font is not at all characteristic of 15th-century English fonts, therefore the re-carving explanation makes sense]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "The church of ST. GEORGE, so dedicated by the early 13th century, [...] was apparently consecrated on 6 February in an unknown year [...] The font was originally in a plain 13th-century style, but decoration was added in the mid 15th century, incorporating the Poulett arms."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.910833, -2.827222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 39″ N, 2° 49′ 38″ W
UTM: 30U 512147 5639924

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-02-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929