Rimpton / Rintone
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2012 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2955540] [accessed 23 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13475RIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Ln, Rimpton, Yeovil BA22 8AE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1935 850745
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 531229 5649270
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.994167, -2.555
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 39″ N, 2° 33′ 18″ W
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-. 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. 296
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 282
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 5 April 2008]