Templecombe / Temple Combe / Abbas Combe / Combe Templariorum / Cumbe

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking north towards St Mary's church in Templecombe, Somerset. The bridge carries the Exeter to Salisbury railway line; the railway station is immediately to the left of this."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geof Sheppard, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2015 by Geof Sheppard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_at_Templecombe_station_-_Wincanton_Road_bridge_and_church.JPG] [accessed 12 April 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06684TEM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Hill (A357), Templecombe, Somerset, BA8 0HQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1963 362266
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A357, just SE of Horsington, 8 km S of Wincanton, about 20 km ENE of Yeovil, 30 km W of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Horethorne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
There is an entry for [Abbas] Combe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST7022/abbas-combe/] [accessed 12 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Phelps (1836) writes: "The font is square, and supported by four small pillars, and very ancient." Wade & Wade (1929) report "a curious E[arly] E[nglish] font" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Square, of the Purbeck type, with four shallow blank arches on each side, C12 or early C13. The bowl stands on five supports" [NB: did the font have only four pillars at Phelps' time?]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes: "Part of the church appears to date from the late 12th century [...] The tower, which was originally unbuttressed, is of the 13th century and was built against an earlier nave which may have been contemporary with the late 12th-century font [...] The late 12th-century Purbeck marble font had wooden corner pillars which were replaced with marble in 1864".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.002778, -2.416667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 0′ 10″ N, 2° 25′ 0″ W
UTM: 30U 540930 5650296

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929