Kingston-upon-Thames / Chingestone / Chingestun / Chingestune / Chingetun / Cyngestun / Kingeston / Kingston upon Thames / Kyningestun

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Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames. The coat of arms over the gate is that of the former East Surrey Regiment, whose memorial chapel is in the church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2012 by Mormit [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kingston_All_Saints01.JPG] [accessed 21 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the baptismal font in view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16869KIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Thames Street, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London KT1 1RJ

Country Name: England

Location: Greater London, South East

Directions to Site: Located in SW London, 16 km SW of Charing Cross

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark

Historical Region: Hundred of Kingston -- formerly Surrey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 17th century(late?) [composite font?], Baroque [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: attributed to Christopher Wren

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font

Church Notes: original church probably 9thC; present church started ca.1120 under Henry I

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Kingston [upon Thames] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1869/kingston-upon-thames/] [accessed 21 December 2015], one of which mentions a church in it. Brayley (1841) writes of two churches in Kingston-upon-Tames: "the old church, near the middle of the town, dedicated to All-Saints, and the new church, consecrated to St. Peter, in Norbiton ward"; of the old church Brayley (ibid.) reckons it is the one reported in Domesday, "and is, doubtless, of Saxon foundation", which, though chiefly of the 14th-century, "was formerly an ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Mary the Blessed Virgin, wherein some of the Saxon monarchs are said to have been crowned". Unfortunately there is no record of an earlier font, and the one seen by Brayley (ibid.) was: "a fluted bason of variegated marble, standing on a sort of baluster pillar". Brayley (ibid.) describes the font at St. Peter's: "of freestone, and of an octagonal form. Is neatly wrought." [NB: this font, like the new church itself, dates from the mid-19th century]. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 3, 1911) notes: "Apart from the destroyed chapel of St. Mary there appears to have been on the site of All Saints a 12th-century church, probably successor of the one mentioned in Domesday. A 12th-century doorway is said to have been discovered in the west wall of the nave when the modern restorations were begun about 1865; unfortunately it was only discovered to be again destroyed, but a photograph showing it was taken and is preserved in the vestry [...] The altar table, oak quire seats, carved stone pulpit, carved stone and marble font, deal pews, and other furniture are all modern." The present font is attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, but Naim & Pevsner (1990) question the pedestal as not belonging to the original font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.4104, -0.3061

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 24′ 37.44″ N, 0° 18′ 21.96″ W

UTM: 30U 687342 5698908

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-12-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Surrey, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990 [c1971]