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
FontID: 07108CAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A303, 12-145 km NE of Yeovil
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, 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