Withypool
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - chevron - parallel
Scene Description: a band, all around
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2009 by Tony Ethridge
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BU01: design element - patterns - fluted or ribbed
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BU02: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the top of the font and cover visible at the west end, north side, opposite the south door
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2009 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07101WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just W of the B3223, in the Exmoor National Park, 25 km SW of Minehead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: The font at Twitchen, in nearby Devon, has an identical bowl, according to Clarke [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Clarke (1916), in her account of the fonts of Devon, refers to this font in her study of the font at Twitchen: "The bowl is exactly like that of Withypool, a few miles away in the county of Somerset, which font remains in its primitive form. While Wythipool leaves nothing to be desired in the harmony of its proportions, the elongated shaft of Twitchen is a great mistake [...]" [cf. Index entry for Twitchen for details and an illustration of the font]. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, the bowl with a fluted underside and a band of parallel chevrons."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with long handle
REFERENCES
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IV", 48, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1916, pp. 302-319; p. 304
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958