Kingsbury Episcopi / Chingesnerie

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2016 by Bill Harrison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5633790] [accessed 13 June 2019]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2016 by Bill Harrison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5635461] [accessed 13 June 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2016 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4816088] [accessed 13 June 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: NB: this is identified in Cornish Churches as the baptismal font at Kingsbury Episcopi [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Ian in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Kingsbury Episcopi Church Somerset - St. Martin/index.htm] [accessed 13 June 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: NB: this is identified in Pinterest as the baptismal font at Kingsbury Episcopi [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph [no name / no date given] in Pinterest [www.pinterest.ca/pin/509680882799490102/] [accessed 13 June 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15344KIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Church St, Kingsbury Episcopi, Martock TA12 6AU, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located just E of Thorney Rd, 2-3 km SSE of Thorney, 3-4 km WNW of Martock, on the W banks of the Parrett river, 14-15 km NW of Yeovil

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Kingsbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century [re-cut], Decorated [altered]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Kingsbury [Episcopi] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST4321/kingsbury-episcopi/] [accessed 13 June 2019] but it mentions no church in it; it does record that the lord in 1066 was the bishop of Wells (St Andrew), and that in 1086 a cleric and three 'men-at-arms' were added to them as lords. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST4364721090] notes: "Anglican parish church. C14, C15, C19 restoration. [...] Re-cut octagonal C14 font, large late C19 tester." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). [ NB: we have no information on the details of the re-carving of this font -- we found two pictorial references to this font: 1)the one on Cornish Churches shows an octagonal font plain but for some mouldings on the stam and lower base; 2)an illustration in Pinterest that shows an octagonal basin decorated with quatrefoiled panels that enclose a number of motifs and symbols (shield, floral or foliage, etc.), a concave underbowl with round arches that continue down the length of the octagonal shaft, and a moulded lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal pyramidal with crocketed arrises and carved sides; fleuron finial -- ***not able to sort out at this point which is the correct one***]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.985556, -2.802778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 8″ N, 2° 48′ 10″ W

UTM: 30U 513843 5648237

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]