Crowcombe / Crawecumbe

Results: 12 records

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B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty

Scene Description: Side 1: seated in orant pose

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

B03: cleric - bishop - seated - wearing mitre - with staff - giving benediction

Scene Description: Side 3 -- Photographed in July 2000

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

B04: human figure - female - crowned - seated - holding sword

Scene Description: Side 4 -- Photographed in July 2000

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

B05: cleric - bishop - with church in right hand - with crozier in left hand

Scene Description: Side 5 -- Photographed in July 2000

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

B06: Apostle or saint - St. Anne - teaching the Virgin to read

Scene Description: Side 6 -- Photographed in July 2000

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

B08: human figure - female - kneeling - orant position

Scene Description: Side 8: probably the font donor together with male figure in side 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches

Scene Description: One arch on each of the eight sides of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2006 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01846CRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Ghost

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Ghost

Church Location: Crowcombe, Taunton TA4 4AA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1984 618272

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1233, -3.2294

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 23.88″ N, 3° 13′ 45.84″ W

UTM: 30U 483946 5663561

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

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

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