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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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BBU01: symbol - cross - saltire
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07099WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1140?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the Exmoor National Park, just W of the A396, 15-20 km WSW of Minehead
Additional Comments: famaged font / altered font: modern base
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Wade & Wade (1929) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, with coarse blank arches, their shafts plaited. Saltire cross frieze above." The National Monument Record, English Heritage [IoE no. 265562] [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=265562] [accessed 12 April 2008] reports: "Norman font with arcade of twisted columns and frieze of saltire crosses above." The cylindrical base has damage to its sides: one of the columns of the arcade is broken off and missing; there appears to be a whole on the side [was this basin ever used as a trough as well?]; the underbowl is moulded; raised on a modern pedestal base, perhaps 19th-century. The round flat wooden cover is probably Victorian as well.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 348
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 12 April 2008]