Nettlecombe / Netecumbe / Netelcumbe
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B01: sacrament - baptism
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B04: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: seen here on the left side of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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B05: sacrament - holy orders
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view of font
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view of basin
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angel - cherub - 8
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior in context - south view
![Source caption: "The church of St Mary stands on the lawn of Nettlecombe Court."
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Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Mary stands on the lawn of Nettlecombe Court."
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FONT BASIN digital photograph by David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/nettlecombe.htm] [accessed 28 March 2018]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChurchCrawler, 2005
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - 8
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2005
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00759NET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1460-1470?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Nettlecombe, Somerset TA4 4HT, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: composite font (the present font: two kinds of stone make up the font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 475383 5664218
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.1289, -3.3518
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 7′ 44.04″ N, 3° 21′ 6.48″ W
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. [??]; [??]
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 257
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168, 216
- Didron, Ainé, "Bronzes et orfévrerie du Moyen Age", 19, Annales archéologiques, 1859, pp. 5-221; p. 188
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 81, 103, 149n, 319-320, 343-344, etc.
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 14 et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 253-254
- Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993, p. 199
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]