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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
Font ID: 07121LUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the NE area of the Exmoor Natinal Park, S of the A39, about 6 km WSW of Minehead
Font Notes:
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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, p. 217