Minehead / Maneheve / Menedun / Menehewed / Mynedd / Mynheafdon

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BF01: Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8

Image Source: B&W photograph from the TRIARC - Edwin Rae Collection (Digital Image Collection)

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Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8

Image Source: B&W photograph from the TRIARC - Edwin Rae Collection (Digital Image Collection)

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - pinnacled - crocketed - 8

Image Source: B&W photograph from the TRIARC - Edwin Rae Collection (Digital Image Collection)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2013 by Neil Owen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3572544] [accessed 14 June 2014]

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view of font - north side

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view of font - northeast side

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view of font - northwest side

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view of font - west-southwest side

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view of font - west-southwest side

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2007 by Robin Croft [http://www.flickr.com/photos/robin_croft/2891723959/] [accessed 23 September 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07083MIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: St Michael's Road, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5RZ

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the A39, NW of the Blue Anchhor Bay, 35 km NW of Taunton. St. Michael's church is located on North Hill, in the Higher Town

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Carhampton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular

Church Notes: a 15th-century illuminated missal (Fitzjames Missal) in this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Minehead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SS9646/minehead/] [accessed 14 June 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer (1870-1872) reports that the church of St. Michael "contains a curious old font". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, "elaborately carved; the niched octagonal shaft has small figures of the Evangelists and the Four Doctors of the Church". Wade & Wade (1929) report simply a "fine font' in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with richly panelled stem and, seated on the ledge at the foot of the bowl, figures, their legs hanging over the underside." There are two sets of figures on this font, all of them very worn: eight of them appear to be seated on a ledge or moulding at the lower side of the octagonal basin; the upper side of the basin and the rim are moulded; the underbowl chafer has mouldings on its lower part; there is a niche on each of the sides of the octagonal stem, crocketed canopies over them supported by columns with moulded capitals and bases; inside each niche is a figure standing on a raised platform. The wooden cover is of the ogee-dome type, with crocketed arrises, either 17th-century or a Victorian version thereof.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.210114, -3.481642

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 36.41″ N, 3° 28′ 53.91″ W

UTM: 30U 466356 5673301

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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

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

Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872