Kingsdon / Kingsdon Cary

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design element - motifs - groove

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5357581] [accessed 7 February 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font visible on the right (south) side, by the entrance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5358188] [accessed 7 February 2018]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14616KIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Top St, Kingsdon, Somerton TA11 7JU, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 272029

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A372, 5 km SE of Somerton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Somerton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.033018, -2.692319

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 58.87″ N, 2° 41′ 32.35″ W

UTM: 30U 521575 5653542

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-. Accessed: 2018-02-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.