Exton nr. Minehead / Essetune

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8

Scene Description: each flower different from the others

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Ian, at Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Exton Church Somerset - SS. Peter and Paul/index.htm] [accessed 5 July 2018]

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symbol - shield - blank - 8

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symbol - shield - blank - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Ian, at Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Exton Church Somerset - SS. Peter and Paul/index.htm] [accessed 5 July 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2013 by John Ford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3608275] [accessed 5 July 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: bell-ringing in progress

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Ian, at Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Exton Church Somerset - SS. Peter and Paul/index.htm] [accessed 5 July 2018]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07119EXT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Exton, West Somerset TA2 29JT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A396, 12-14 km SSW of Minehead

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Williton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church Notes: Norman church; modified 13thC, 15th, etc.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Exton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SS9233/exton/] [accessed 4 July 2018] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with leaves, etc., in quatrefoils." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS9258433706] [accessed 4 July 2018] reports a Perpendicular font in this church. The basin sides are decorated with varied floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils; the underbowl of the basin has blank shields on it. The wooden cover is in the shape of a truncated octagonal pyramid.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0925, -3.535278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 33″ N, 3° 32′ 7″ W

UTM: 30U 462515 5660248

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal truncated pyramid with cross finial

REFERENCES

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958