Kingweston / Chinwardestune / Kenwardston

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Approach to Kingweston Church. The view is from the public footpath, which extends in a south easterly direction from the Butleigh road. Kingweston House is also just visible behind the church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2007 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/444041] [accessed 31 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "C12 decorated Norman doorway, with a zigzag arch and a fine trellis decoration around the also impressive door."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2008 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1014294] [accessed 31 January 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Kingsweston/AllSaints2.html] [accessed 25 March 2008]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Phil Draper [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Kingsweston/AllSaints2.html] [accessed 25 March 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13443KIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Kingweston TA116BD, UK -- Tel.: (01458) 223237

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3151, 5 km NE of Somerton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Catsash -- Hundred of Blachethorna [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Kingweston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5230/kingweston/] [accessed 31 January 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Handbook for travellers… (1869) notes the modern church "rebuilt by Mr. Dickinson (Giles, architect)", but "The Norman door, piscina and font are relics of the former church". Wade & Wade (1929) report: "The doorway and font of an earlier Norm[an] church are still preserved". The baptismal font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a roll moulding at the lower rim, a plain concave chamferred underbowl and a cylindrical pedestal base decorated with a roll moulding in the cntre-ring position. The wooden cover is round and flat, with a carved rim, and with metal decorations and ring handle; probably Victorian, of the mid-19th century re-building of the church. A recent [2007] photograph of the font in the context of the church interior by Phil Draper can be found at http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Kingsweston/AllSaints2.html [accessed 25 March 2008]. The entry for this church in Images of England [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=262907] [accessed 31 January 2018] reports: "towards west end fine C12 font, plain bowl, moulded turned shaft and base"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.07936, -2.6792

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 45.7″ N, 2° 40′ 45.12″ W

UTM: 30U 522472 5658699

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929