Milverton nr. Taunton / Milvertone / Milvertune
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Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 2 December 2007)
Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: described by one source as 'saltires' [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 March 2010 by Peter [www.flickr.com/photos/10350073@N04/4403487751/in/photostream/] [accessed 4 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 2 December 2007)
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 March 2010 by Peter [www.flickr.com/photos/10350073@N04/4403487751/in/photostream/] [accessed 4 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 2 December 2007)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Harper, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2010 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1699743] [accessed 4 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "12th.Century font, St.Michaels, Milverton, Somerset. This font is a fine example of Norman workmanship and dates from about 1100 AD."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 March 2010 by Peter [www.flickr.com/photos/10350073@N04/4403487751/in/photostream/] [accessed 4 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 2 December 2007)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07092MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Parsonage Lane and North Street, Milverton, Somerset, TA4 1LR
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3187, 11 km W of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Milverton [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered?]
Font Notes:
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Thre are three entries for this Milverton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST1225/milverton/] [accessed 4 February 2015], one of which, in the lordship of "Stephen, the chaplain", mentions a church and church lands in it. A font here is described in Jeboult (1873): "The font is large and massive, lead lined." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883, in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Wade & Wade (1929) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, with a frieze of saltire crosses in rectangles at the top and a cable-moulding at the bottom of the bowl." Described as a "circular Norman font" in the 'Listed Buildings' of the Taunton Deane Borough Council [http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/tdbcsites/her/her_lb/lbdets.asp?id=001900] [accessed 30 March 2008].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.024825, -3.254707
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 29.37″ N, 3° 15′ 16.94″ W
UTM: 30U 482137 5652616
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain
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
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929