Somersal Herbert / Sommershall Herbert / Somersall Herbert / Summersale

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases

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design element - motifs - interlace - zigzag - with circles

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the old font at the far end of the aisle

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01541SOM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Grove Lane, Somersal Herbert, Derbyshire DE6 5PD

Country Name: England

Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A50, 3 km NE of Doveridge, 5-6 km NE of Uttoxeter, 24-25 km W of Derby

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby

Historical Region: Hindred of Appletree [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: Church Broughton

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Somersall [variant spelling in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK1335/somersal/] [accessed 1 July 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a noteworthy example of Norman tub font with characteristic ornamentation here [NB: C&H use "Sommershall Herbert" in one entry (p. 194) and "Somersal Herbert" in another (p. 195); the current usage form is the latter]. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK1361035158] (1967) notes: " Early C12 circular tub font with intersecting blind arcading and a frieze of lozenges overlaid with intermittent circles." The tub-shaped basin is almost cylindrical and very weathered; there is a band of crude interlace that includes zig-zag lines as well as circles just below the upper rim; the sides are covered in an arcade of round intersecting arches resting on columns with capitals and bases; the inner well of the basin is lead-lined. The old basin has been re-set on a modern octagonal base and plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9131, -1.7993

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 47″ N, 1° 47′ 57″ W

UTM: 30U 580892 5863381

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978