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
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symbol - shield - blank - 8
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symbol - shield - blank - 8
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view of church exterior - south view
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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
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: bell-ringing in progress
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07119EXT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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:
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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