West Buckland

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07084BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1140?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [re-carved] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the M5, 5 km E of Wellington, 8 km SW of Taunton
Font Notes:
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, p. 217
  • 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, p. 99 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=h-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100&lpg=RA1-PA100&dq=west+hatch+church+font&source=bl&ots=8DPeBrOd_W&sig=MBiQ5MYBqifsAD89-vQ_wGSHaKA&hl=en&ei=woMRSv6yH4jOMqKBnbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP7,M1] [accessed 18 May 2009]
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 360 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA161,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 336
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 9 March 2008]