Raddington / Radingetune

There is an entry for Raddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0125/raddington/] [accessed 28 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1958) writes: "Octagonal, C13, of the Purbeck type, with shallow blank arches. They are trefoil-pointed." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "There was a church at Raddington by 1262 [...] The whole [present] building dates from the 14th century at the latest, its door including ironwork of the second half of the century [The font is of a 13th-century Purbeck type [...] The font is of a 13th-century Purbeck type". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with a series of shallow trefoil-headed arches or windows, three per side; plain underbowl chamfer; plain octaonal stem, and round lower base. The font appears to have been re-tooled in parts; other parts damaged and repaired. The wooden cover is octagonal, a medium dome.