Castle Cary / Castlecary / Cari [Domesday] / Kari
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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
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Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith
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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 in context
Scene Description: in the centre of the nave, west end
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view of font in context - west view
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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font and cover in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Malaiperuman, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2012 by John Malaiperuman [http://johnmal.com/all-saints-church-castle-cary/] [accessed 29 January 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07114CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1470?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church St, Castle Cary BA7 7LD, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (was it the font reported in a museum in the VCH entry below? [cf. FontNotes], or was there an earlier font from the church with "Saxon origins"?)
Font Notes:
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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".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his phoographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 533852 5659574
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.086667, -2.516667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 5′ 12″ N, 2° 31′ 0″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 375 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 116
- 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: 384 / [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]
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 9 March 2008]