Kingsdon / Kingsdon Cary
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Results: 6 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - groove
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5357581] [accessed 7 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5358188] [accessed 7 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font visible on the right (south) side, by the entrance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14616KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Top St, Kingsdon, Somerton TA11 7JU, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 272029
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A372, 5 km SE of Somerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Somerton
Additional Comments: damaged font
Font Notes:
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No entry for Kingsdon found in the Domesday survey. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports a basin for consecrated water near the door of this churvch, but it may be referring to a stoup, rather than the font itself. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The church is first mentioned in 1242 [...] The nave is of 12th-century origin and there is a niche of that date over the south door [...] The bowl of the font is of the 12th century". The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [Listing NGR: ST5157026203] reports a "font probably C13, a tulip bowl on circular shaft, lead lined"; the basin has a through crack all around the side of the basin. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 521575 5653542
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.033018, -2.692319
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 1′ 58.87″ N, 2° 41′ 32.35″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.