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Results: 11 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank - 8

two on each side of the square basin
Scene Description: two on each side of the square basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

B02: design element - architectural - niche - 4

one at each angle of the square basin; each with a figure in it
Scene Description: one at each angle of the square basin; each with a figure in it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000
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BF01: Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 4

each in one of the niches at the corners of the basin
Scene Description: each in one of the niches at the corners of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000
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LB01: design element - architectural - window - trefoiled

on each side of the columns of the base
Scene Description: on each side of the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000
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view of font and cover in context

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - south façade

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Needham, 1944
Image Source: from an illustration in Needham (1944)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01314QUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-24
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Winterborne-Whitchurch & Bradford Abbas, both in Dorset
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Barnabas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Barnabas [aka Barnabus, Bernabé]
Church Address: 4 Church Path, Queen Camel, Yeovil BA22 7NX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1935 851465
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Bristol, 11 kms N of Yeovil. [NB: this site is wrongly labelled as being in Dorset on the BSI site sign and field notes [cf. slide archive, slide no. 00-64-27, 24 July 2000 and font file #136/2000]].
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Phelps (1836): "The font is a gem of sculpture." Described in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "The font is one of very curious design, with statues at the the angles." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as being an example of the surviving "peculiar twelfth century type with non-constructional legs at the corners", together with the fonts at Winterborne-Whitchurch and Bradford Abbas. Long (1923) notes it a font of similar design and period as the two Dorset fonts. Described in Wade & Wade (1929): "The Perp[endicular] font is unusual, being supported on pillars which have niches containing figures." Pevsner (1958) dates the figures to the early 15th century. On-site notes: octagonal mounted font probably of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style; the corner pillars of the base rise all the way to the upper rim of the basin, the upper half of each corner shaft being carved as a niche with the figure of an Apostle; the upper rim border of the basin has foliage/plant motif ornamentation, while each side of the basin has two shields carved over a quatrefoil; these shields are said to be destined for the coats of arms of the donors to be painted on; even the central supporting column, which is usually left totally plain in many fonts, is ornamented here with architectural motifs. The font is raised on a plain square plinth. The wooden cover is of the common Jacobean type with four scroll ribs around a central pivot; illustrated in Needham (1944) with date in the 16th or 17th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this site

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 529886 5652352
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.021944, -2.573889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 1′ 19″ N, 2° 34′ 26″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 17 cm (23 cm at the corners)
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 91 x 103 cm (diagonals of the octagon)
Basin Depth: 27 cm
Height of Basin Side: 36 cm
Basin Total Height: 55 cm
Height of Base: 57 cm
Height of Central Column: 45 cm
Height of Side Columns: 95 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 127 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-17th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 255 and ill. on p. 254
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 145
  • Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 71, 73
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 376 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
  • Neeham, Albert, How to study an old church, London: Batsford, 1944, pl. X
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 280
  • Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836, vol. 1: 438 and ill. / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=IAQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA589&lpg=PA589&dq=butleigh+church+font&source=bl&ots=YU0c4LRPgk&sig=u9wX07aEBfabcQ5OyhJwDvZHqXg&hl=en&ei=NcH9SYDHKY-UMtOp0c8E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP7,M1] [accessed 3 May 2009]
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 9 March 2008]