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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4
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B02: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4
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UB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06692HAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A358t, 10 km ESE of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1958): "Of the familiar octagonal Perp[endicular] type." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with large quatrefoils inscribing floral motifs and blank shields alternately, raised on an octagonal pedestal with mouldings at both ends, the sides decorated with trefoiled arches or windows; the moulded lower base may be later, and is integrated in the modern plinth.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958