Sutton Bingham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13485SUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, just inside the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: A full panoramic view of the church interior -including the font- can be found at http://www.panoscope.co.uk/projects/suttonbingham/Pano2VR/index.html?TB_iframe=true&height=480&width=640 [accessed 6 April 2008]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A37, across from Rume Intrinseca, 6 km S of Yeovil, near the Dorset border
Font Notes:
Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports a "Norman font" in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) report a late-Norman font in this church. The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=263603] [accessed 17 September 2009] records a "round tub font with cable mould on turned base" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The font consists of a cylindrical basin with mouldings at the rim and lower level, a rounded underbowl, and is raised on a pedestal base. The wooden cover is flat and round, probably modern.

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

  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 321
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 6 April 2008]