Hinton Charterhouse
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthe cotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBU01: design element - motifs - chevron - continuous chevron
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthe cotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthe cotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground, right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph by Phil Draper in http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/HintonCharterhouse/StJohn2.html [accessed 8 June 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthe cotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2009
Image Source: 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/h/largeimage85760.html] [accessed 18 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 13542HIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Green Lane, Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset, BA2 7TJ
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3110, 8 km SSE of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Wellow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end, by the S door
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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There is a 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15547 - Item number: f.46]. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, of tub shape, with a zigzag band at the top." Tub-shaped baptismal font; a row of continuous chevron around the upper basin side; mouldings at the bottom; square lower base and octagonal plinth. The tall-ish wooden font consists of a round base with a running inscription all around, and an octagonal pyramd with slightly concave arrises with occasional crockets adorning them; dove finial; guilded and painted.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 547136 5686251
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: on the font cover sides
Inscription Text: "[…] OTHERS AND OF THE […]"
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958