West Buckland
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: symbol - saltire
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B03: design element - motifs - foliage?
Scene Description: a 15th-century re-carving [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 07084BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of the M5, 5 km E of Wellington, 8 km SW of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1140?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [re-carved] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of Nov. 1862) reports on the 22 August visit by the Somesetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society to the parish church of West Buckland: "the font is a Norman one, having its sides alternately and arcade and the cross of St. Andrew". Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869) as a Norman font. Jeboult (1873) reports is as "very rough and mutilated". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Wade & Wade (1929) mention "the Norm[an] font (on a modern base)". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Square, of the Purbeck type with shallow blank arches. Two sides were originally uncarved and received leaf carvings in the C15." Noted in the Welington Team Churches site [http://www.wellingtonteam.co.uk/West%20Buckland.html] [accessed 9 March 2008] : "The font, made from a solid block of Purbeck marble, dates from 1140".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929