Horsington nr. Wincanton / Horstenetone / Horstentone

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Results: 6 records
angel - demi-figure - holding shield - 8
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - south view
INFORMATION
FontID: 13433HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Horsington, Templecombe BA8 0EG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A357, 7 km SSW of Wincanton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Horethorne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1400?
Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this Horsington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST7023/horsington/] [accessed 18 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Phelps (1836) writes: "The font is richly sculptured, consisting of an octagonal basin, resting on a panneled [sic] pedestal. On each angle of the cornice is a winged angel, with a row of quatrefoils between them." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883. Wade & Wade (1929) report "a 15th-cent. octagonal font with, rudely carved figures of angels at the angles". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with crudely carved angels supporting the bowl." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7029723861] reports "an octagonal font of c1400 with double quatrefoil panels" here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes: "A clerk of Horsington was recorded c. 1200 and in the early 13th century, and a rector in 1262 [...] The present building retains an early 15th-century front [i.e, font]". The font consists of an octagonal basin with a band of quatrefoil motifs just below the upper rim; eight angel demi-figures holding shields decorate the sides and underbowl [not clear from our source whether the shields are charged; coats of arms? emblems?]; trefoiled arch or window on eacg side of the octagonal stem; plain splaying octagonal lower base; on a narrow plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden font cover is of the vertical scroll around a central turned pivot type, with ball finial; date unknown.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.0134,
-2.4248
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 0′ 48.24″ N,
2° 25′ 29.28″ W
UTM: 30U 540350 5651472
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-04-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929