Kingston St. Mary
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B01: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil - 4
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
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Lid01: inscription
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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
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view of font
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - motifs - piping
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14617KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 0ff (N) the A358, 5 km N of Taunton
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "the font is [of] good Perpendicular character". Noted in Pevsner (1958) as "Perp[endicular] standard". The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=270621] [accessed 9 May 2009] notes: "Perpendicular font, wooden canopy and pully dated 1900" [NB: the date pertains only to the font cover and mechanism; the font cover has an inscription identifying the donors, Arthur and Violet Street, in memory of their child]. The font itself consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides deeply carved with quatrefoild panels that contain, alternately, charged shields and floral motifs; the underbowl chamfer has similar quatrefoils but they all inscribe floral motifs; the stem has pairs of trefoil arches or windows, arranged one-up-one-down on each side; all the contours and angles from the basin to the lower base are framed in thick piping; the splaring lower base is octagonal.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethirdge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: on the font cover
Inscription Text: "[...] CHILD OF ARTHUR & VIOLET STREET AGED 4 [...]"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1900
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 245
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 214