Kingston St. Mary

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 8 records
B01: coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil - 4
B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4
BU01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
Lid01: inscription
UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
design element - motifs - piping
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14617KIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 0ff (N) the A358, 5 km N of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethirdge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the font cover
Inscription Text: "[...] CHILD OF ARTHUR & VIOLET STREET AGED 4 [...]"
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958