Fiddington / Fitintone
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2010 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/4833784976] [accessed 4 April 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2010 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/4833764182] [accessed 4 April 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sheela Na Gig Project, 2018
Image Source: Sheela-na-gig digital photograph in the Sheela Na Gig Project [www.sheelanagig.org/wordpress/fiddington/] [accessed 4 April 2018]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 15350FID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Church Road, Fiddington, Bridgwater TA5 1JQ, UK -- Tel.: (01278) 732190
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, just N of Keenthorne, 10 km W of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Cannington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Sheela Na Gig Project [www.sheelanagig.org] for their image of the Fiddington's Sheela
Church Notes: the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The herringbone may be 11thc; the church is otherwise of the 14thc and 15thc., restored in 1860" -- Sheela-na-gig on the outer SE corner of the nave
There is an entry for this Fiddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2140/fiddington/] [accessed 4 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [List entry Number: 1264213] notes: "Font in a Perpendicular style, Jacobean cover". The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "Fiddington church was first recorded in 1272 […] The church of ST. MARTIN, so dedicated by the early 14th century", but does not mention any font; the early font was probably replaced in one of the several renovations of this church through the centuries. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.1592,
-3.1229
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 9′ 33.12″ N,
3° 7′ 22.44″ W
UTM: 30U 491406 5667536
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-09-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
