Nettlecombe / Netecumbe / Netelcumbe

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B01: sacrament - baptism

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B02: sacrament - confirmation

B03: sacrament - penance

B04: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: seen here on the left side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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B05: sacrament - holy orders

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B06: sacrament - marriage

B07: sacrament - extreme unction

B08: Christ - Christ in Majesty - Virgin Mary - St. John the Baptist

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - 8

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view of basin

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper (2005) [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Nettlecombe/StMary4.html] [accessed 27 March 2008]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Mary stands on the lawn of Nettlecombe Court." EXT SE digital photograph by David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/nettlecombe.htm] [accessed 28 March 2018] FONT BASIN digital photograph by David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/nettlecombe.htm] [accessed 28 March 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00759NET

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Nettlecombe, Somerset TA4 4HT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3190, W of Stogumber and Monksilver, 30 km W of Bridgewater. The church is located in the grounds of Nettlecombe Court

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Williton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle

Date: ca. 1460-1470?

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this Nettlecombe [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0537/nettlecombe/] [accessed 28 March 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley (1844) reports a "rich Perpendicular octagonal Font" here. Both the basin and the base are octagonal. The basin sides have representations of "the seven sacraments of the Romish Church" (ibid.) and a Christ in Majesty [Paley describes this side as "filled with symbols of the Blessed Trinity" but does not show it in his illustration (ibid.) Described in Pevsner (1958) as "uncommonly ambitious in its sculptural decoration", an exceptional Seven-sacrament font outside of East Anglia; "the date seems to be c. 1460-70". Noted in Didron (1859), probably after Paley. Reported in Wade & Wade (1929): "octagonal font, with carved sides (much defaced), seven of them supposed to represent the seven sacraments". Noted in Cautley (1949). Studied in detail by Nichols (1994), who gives the order of the scenes as: 1)Baptism; 2)Confirmation; 3)Penance; 4)Eucharist; 5)Orders; 6)Marriage; 7)Extreme Unction; 8)Last Judgment. Paley's dating and Nichols' (credited to Mary Siraut) coincide around the middle of the 15th century; the underbowl chamfer has angels with spread wings holding books; the sides of the base have a single blind trefoil arch in each. The font retains some of its [original?] paint. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "There was probably a church in Nettlecombe by the late 12th century [...] The benefice was valued at £8 in 1291 [...] The carved font, of East Anglian design, depicts the Seven Sacraments [...] The church was restored by Richard Carver c. 1820. [...] More extensive work was done between 1858 and 1870 by C. E. Giles under the guidance of James Babbage". Described and illustrated by Phil Draper (2005) [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Nettlecombe/StMary4.html] [accessed 27 March 2008]: "The folklore explanation for this font being in Somerset is that it was a present to the church by the Duchess of Suffolk, whose grandmother was Lady of the Manor here. It dates from c1465-70 but only the bowl comes from East Anglia, the base is of local Ham Stone."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1289, -3.3518

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 44.04″ N, 3° 21′ 6.48″ W

UTM: 30U 475383 5664218

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Ham Hill stone [base only]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*

Basin Depth: 27.5 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 92.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Paley (1844) ["Height=3 ft.1in -- diameter across the top=2ft.4in. -- depth of bowl=11 in."]

REFERENCES

"The Nettlecombe Font", 17 (1931), Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1931, pp. [??]; r["References"]

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-03-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Didron, Ainé, "Bronzes et orfévrerie du Moyen Age", 19, Annales archéologiques, 1859, pp. 5-221; r["References"]

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929