Crowcombe / Crawecumbe
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Results: 12 records
B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty
Scene Description: Side 1: seated in orant pose
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B02: human figure - male - kneeling - orant
Scene Description: Side 2: wearing a sword; probably the donor of the font together with the female figure in side 8
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B03: cleric - bishop - seated - wearing mitre - with staff - giving benediction
Scene Description: Side 3 -- Photographed in July 2000
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B04: human figure - female - crowned - seated - holding sword
Scene Description: Side 4 -- Photographed in July 2000
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B05: cleric - bishop - with church in right hand - with crozier in left hand
Scene Description: Side 5 -- Photographed in July 2000
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B06: Apostle or saint - St. Anne - teaching the Virgin to read
Scene Description: Side 6 -- Photographed in July 2000
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B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the left, Gabriel to the right
Scene Description: Side 7 -- Photographed in July 2000
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B08: human figure - female - kneeling - orant position
Scene Description: Side 8: probably the font donor together with male figure in side 2
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches
Scene Description: One arch on each of the eight sides of the base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01846CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-21
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Ghost
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Ghost
Church Address: Crowcombe, Taunton TA4 4AA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1984 618272
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A358, 19-20 km NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton
Additional Comments: This church is a Green Man paradise!: "Green Men are everywhere. One appears to have mermen growing out of his ears. Another could include the earliest depiction of tomatoes in this country, brought to England after the Spanish conquest of Peru [sic!]. Green Men are also shown consorting with fish, indicating the importance of the sea even to these inland settlements." (Jenkins, 1999, p. 596)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Crowcombe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1436/crowcombe/] [accessed 5 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) mention "the splendid octagonal font with carved figures on each face" in this church. Jenkins (1999) calls this font "one of the best in Sommerset". It is a richly carved 15th-century octagonal mounted font. Cox & Harvey (1907: 217) list the panels thus: 1)Christ enthroned; 2)civilian [sic] kneeling in prayer; 3)bishop gives benediction; 4)king enthroned; 5)founder bishop with crozier and model of church; 6)St. Anne teaching the Virgin; 7)angel appears to Zachariah at altar; 8)lady kneeling at prayer; of which 2 and 8 are believed to be the font donors kneeling towards Christ. Described in Pevsner (1958), who identifies the scenes thus: "Christ showing his wounds, the kneeling donor, St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read." On-site notes: the figure in 4) appears to be female and holding a sword; scene in 7) could be the Annunciation to the Virgin; many of the heads, probably broken off during the Reformation, have been restored; the lower part of the basin is made of overhanging arches finishing in floral motifs; the base is also octagonal ornamented with an Ogee arch on each side; the tall wooden cover is octagonal as well with a dove finial. The brief church-guide indicates that the font stood at the west end near the stairwell and had a wall bracket and pulley to raise the font cover; the font was later moved to the entrance to the tower, the present location of the organ, and only after the Second World War was moved to its present spacious location]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 483946 5663561
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.1233, -3.2294
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 7′ 23.88″ N, 3° 13′ 45.84″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 15 cm (18 cm at the corners)
Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 78 x 84 cm (min.&max. diagonals)
Basin Depth: 23 cm
Height of Basin Side: 32 cm
Basin Total Height: 60 cm (includes overhang)
Height of Base: 60 cm
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 32 x 34 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 120 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: It has a wall-bracket and pulley in its previous location
Notes: Tall lid with dove finial
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 596
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 141and pl. 38a
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 15 March 2008]