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B01: design element - motifs - moulding
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B01: design element - patterns - fluted
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07094PEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A303, 6-7 km NE of Wincanton, 25-30 km NE of Yeovil
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the tower entrance, S side
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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-. Accessed: 2008-04-02 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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
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
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929
Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872