Pitminster

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Results: 9 records

B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ blessing the children?

Scene Description: or St. James with the donors? [cf. Font notes] [modern re-carving on a formerly blank face of the basin?]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2008

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Phil Draper, 2008 [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Pitminster/SSAndrewMary3.html] [accessed 4 April 2008]

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B02: Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 6?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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LB01: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: below the moulding that makes up the frames of the basin

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LB02: design element - architectural - column - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - angular

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view of church interior - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge 29 May 2007

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge 29 May 2007

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2008

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05443PIT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just NW of Corfe, S of the M5, about 6-7 km WSW of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [one side re-carved?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: Bradfield, Lindfield, Penhurst and Carfax, Oxford
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages for his photographs of this site
Described by Bond (1908) as one of a group of "unmounted fonts of the fifteenth century". Bond (ibid.) notes that the font formerly stood against the wall and has one panel blank; later it was detached and the blank panel carved with the modern subject of Christ blessing the little children. Wade & Wade (1929) describe the font as "elaborately carved". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The Blackdown Benefice site [http://www.blackdown.org.uk/pit/info.php] [accessed 4 April 2008] notes simply "the 15th century font made of Bere stone". Described and illustrated in Phil Draper (2008) [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Pitminster/SSAndrewMary3.html] [accessed 4 April 2008]: "Pevsner does not mention this rather fine font of c1450 which although restored has two faces with medieval scenes (St George slaying the dragon, St James of Compstella [sic] (left panel) flanked by a kneeling couple - possibly the donors)". The font is indeed monolithic [cf. Bond supra], but the octagonal basin appears distinct from the lower half, which has been carved with eight round colonnettes attached to the broad octagonal shaft that constitutes the central block; stands on a narrow square plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, and appears modern [Victorian?].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Bere stone]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Victorian? / 19th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929