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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view of font - northeast side

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

view of font - northwest side

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

view of font - north side

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

view of font - west-southwest side

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

view of font - west-southwest side

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

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

Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8

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

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

Font ID: 07083MIN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

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

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael

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

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

Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom

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 Notes: Click to view

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

UTM: 30U 466356 5673301

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.210114, -3.481642

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

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, p. 217
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 241
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]
Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, in [www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp;jsessionid=74FE05BFEF9AF3B149522869A1D52DF8?text_id=991860&word=NULL] [accessed 30 March 2008]