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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 4?

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B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 4?

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BU01: design element - motifs - tracery

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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UB01: design element - motifs - tracery - trefoiled - 8

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07121LUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located in the NE area of the Exmoor Natinal Park, S of the A39, about 6 km WSW of Minehead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=265328] [accessed 22 September 2009] records "Perpendicular octagonal font; c1840 crocketed pyramid font cover raised by pulley attached to jamb of tower arch" in this church. The octagonal basin has deeply-carved pointed quatrefoiled panels with blank shields alternating with floral motifs inscribed in the panels; tracery on the underbowl chamfer; traceried stem,; moulded lower base; all octagonal; on a modern (?) quadrangular plinth. The oak cover pyramidal octagon, with pronounced moulded arrises, traceried panels between; large floral finial.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century (mid)
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes [cf. FontNotes]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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