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B01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
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view of church exterior - south portal
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Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07094PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the tower entrance, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A303, 6-7 km NE of Wincanton, 25-30 km NE of Yeovil
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Phelps (1836): "The font is Anglo-Norman, coeval with the church". Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "a Norman font". Wilson's Gazetteer (1870-1872) reports "an old font" in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Wade & Wade (1929) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman. Square bowl with thin decorated flutes on all sides." The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes that "[t]he font, the south doorway, and the proportions of the nave and chancel suggest a church of the 12th century". The Parish Council web site [http://www.penselwood.parishcouncil.net/church.php] [accessed 2 April 2008] notes: "The Norman font has a square bowl with fluted sides".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 248 / [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, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 242
- Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836, vol. 1: 193 and ill. on p. 97 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=IAQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA589&lpg=PA589&dq=butleigh+church+font&source=bl&ots=YU0c4LRPgk&sig=u9wX07aEBfabcQ5OyhJwDvZHqXg&hl=en&ei=NcH9SYDHKY-UMtOp0c8E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP7,M1] [accessed 3 May 2009]
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 2 April 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 [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=13141] [accessed 2 April 2008]