Withycombe

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

B02: design element - motifs - rope moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 07100WIT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just S of the A39, near Blue Anchor Bay, in the NE corner of the Exmoor National Park
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Wade & Wade (1929) report "a font with cable moulding" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, with widely spaced vertical ribs on the bowl and a cable-moulding."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929