Lovington / Lovecombe / Lovintune

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 March 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3929084] [accessed 5 February 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15376LOV

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury

Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]

Church Location: Lovington BA7 7PY , UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B3153, 3 km WSW of Castle Cary, 16 km SW of Wincanton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Blachethorna

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Church Notes: original church late-12thC; present church 13thC church; restored 1860s

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Lovington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5930/lovington/] [accessed 5 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The National Monuments Record [Listing NGR: ST5967430836] reports a 19th-century font in this 13th-century church. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 10, 2010) notes: "Robert of Cary, lord of Lovington, about 1189 gave the church, which is dedicated to St Thomas Becket and may have been founded by Robert, to Wells cathedral" [there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry]. The present font is probably from the 1861 renovation of the building [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0754, -2.5771

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 31.44″ N, 2° 34′ 37.56″ W

UTM: 30U 529627 5658295

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-02-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.