Horsington nr. Wincanton / Horstenetone / Horstentone
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view of font and cover
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - 8
Scene Description: poor resolution source image; are the shields charged? emblems?
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2007 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/398370] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Harper, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3672000] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13433HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1400?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Horsington, Templecombe BA8 0EG, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A357, 7 km SSW of Wincanton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Horethorne
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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 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
UTM: 30U 540350 5651472
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0134, -2.4248
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 0′ 48.24″ N, 2° 25′ 29.28″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 232
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 200
- 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, vol. 1: 320
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]