Cadbury nr. Yeovil / North Cadbury
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - with inscribed symbol or motif
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Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
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UB01: design element - patterns - tracery
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Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Phelps (1836)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07108CAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A303, 12-145 km NE of Yeovil
Font Notes:
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Noted in Phelps (1836) as an ancient font. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils, etc." The font consists of an octagonal basin with large quatrefoils inscribing a variety of motifs (blank shield, rosette, etc.) on the sides; the underbowl chamfer is octagonal at the top and square where it meets the square stem; the latter has attached round colonnettes at the angles that initiate on the underbowl; the flat sides of the stem have tracery patterns; the lower base is square.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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. 256
- 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: 397 and ill. on p. 400 / [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]