Castle Cary / Castlecary / Cari [Domesday] / Kari

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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: smaller leaves in two rows and a few (?) larger leaves on the sides of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 16

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view of church exterior - detail

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font and cover in context - south view

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the centre of the nave, west end

Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context - west view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07114CAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church St, Castle Cary BA7 7LD, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the B3152, 6-8 km NW of Wincanton, 20 km NE of Yeovil

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Catsash -- Hundred of Blachethorna [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Date: ca. 1470?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his phoographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Castle] Cary [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6432/castle-cary/] [accessed 29 January 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Phelps (1836) writes: "The Church [...] is a handsome Gothic building of the period of Henry VI [i.e., 1421-1471] [...] The font is of the aera [sic] of the Church, and richly sculptured." Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "a font dating from Henry VI." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Wade & Wade (1929): "a shallow font (temp. Henry VI.) on a pedestal of curious design". Described in Pevsner (1958). The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 10, 2010) notes: "Nothing of the 12th-century church survived the rebuilding in the 15th and 16th centuries and the demolition and reconstruction of the west end in the 19th century [...] The crocketted pulpit and font with quatrefoil panels and traceried shaft were also Perpendicular." Additionally the a footnote in the VCH entry (ibid.) reads: "SRO, A/AQP 9. A Norman tub font in the museum was said to have been found in the garden of a house in Upper High St: M. McGarvie, Castle Cary (1980), 3." [NB: we have no information on the source or the present whereabouts of the museum font]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST6391632055] claims it had "Saxon origins".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.086667, -2.516667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 12″ N, 2° 31′ 0″ W

UTM: 30U 533852 5659574

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, plain and modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-01-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869

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

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929