Cudworth / Cudeworde
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design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: a band by the upper rim; some of it very eroded now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lewis Bates, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2016 by Lewis Bates, in The Lewbat Pages [www.batesplace.co.uk/?page_id=5224] [accessed 21 February 2018]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: [NB: there may have been another rope moulding on the basin, but only a worn contour is discernible now]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lewis Bates, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2016 by Lewis Bates, in The Lewbat Pages [www.batesplace.co.uk/?page_id=5224] [accessed 21 February 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5025878] [accessed 21 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast
Scene Description: the old font is partially visible on the left, by the pillar of the north arcade; the church has only a nave and a north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5025881] [accessed 21 February 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: by the westernmost pillar of the north arcade; in the background is the north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lewis Bates, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2016 by Lewis Bates, in The Lewbat Pages [www.batesplace.co.uk/?page_id=5224] [accessed 21 February 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07086CUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Cudworth, Ilminster TA190PR , UK -- Tel.: (01460) 53165
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A30, halfway between Chard and Crewkerne, 18 km WSW of Yeovil
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of South Petherton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end, by a N arcade pillar
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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The Handbook for travellers… (1869) mentions a font of the Norman period here. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Wade & Wade (1929) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "About 1186–8 Alan de Furneaux, with the consent of his son Geoffrey, granted the church of Cudworth and the chapel of Knowle St. Giles to Wells cathedral [...] The oldest features are the 12th-century north doorway and a small roundheaded window set low down in the east wall of the of the nave [...] The church furnishings include a large early13th-century font with dog-tooth and cable mouldings".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8939, -2.8927
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 38.04″ N, 2° 53′ 33.72″ W
UTM: 30U 507546 5638032
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: 3?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; hinged in the centre
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-02-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929