Rimpton / Rintone
Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2012
CC-BY-SA-2.0
Results: 1 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2012 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2955540] [accessed 23 April 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 13475RIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Ln, Rimpton, Yeovil BA22 8AE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1935 850745
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3148, 8 km NE od Yeovil
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Taunton -- Hundred of Thorethrone [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Click to view
No entry for Rimpton found in the Domesday survey. Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "an ancient font" in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) report an "ancient font" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with Jacobean cover." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes "Tere was a church at Rimpton by 1291 (fn. 133) but tenants had paid churchscot from 1215 or earlier [...] The chancel appears to have been built in the late 13th century and the north doorway of the nave and the tower are of the late 13th or early 14th century [...] Among the fittings are a 15th-century font with a 17th-century cover".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.994167, -2.555
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 39″ N, 2° 33′ 18″ W
UTM: 30U 531229 5649270
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-05 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
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929