Keinton Mandeville / Chintone / Chintune

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - spur - 4
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 13436KEI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Church Lane, Keinton Mandeville TA11 6ER, UK -- Tel.: (01458) 223237
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3153, near Barton St David, 10 km W of Castle Cary, SE of Street
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Blachethorna
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for Keinton [Mandeville] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5430/keinton-mandeville/] [accessed 31 January 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports: "font in the Early English style". Wade & Wade (1929) report that "the old Norm[an] font is still preserved" in this church. Baptismal font consisting of a plain cylindrical basin with a rounded underbowl, all plain, raised on a cylindrical stem with a moulding at the top end; the lower base is octagonal-to-square, with large rounded spurs at 90-degree angles; the upper rim of the basin has a repair of inserted stone. The wooden cover is round and flat; appears modern. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this church in Images of England [www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=262896] [accessed 31 January 2018] reports: "Font may be C13". The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 10, 2011) notes: "The church is first mentioned in 1242–3, [...] and the lancets in the chancel suggest a foundation in the earlier 13th century [...] The medieval church, which was 54 ft long but only 18 ft wide, had a simple nave and chancel of the 13th century. Both survive together with a simple font, probably, of the 12th century".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.068274,
-2.647446
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 4′ 5.78″ N,
2° 38′ 50.81″ W
UTM: 30U 524702 5657476
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-01-31 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
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929