Porlock

Results: 7 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank - in an octafoil - 8

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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

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BU02: design element - patterns - crenellated

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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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LB03: symbol - shield - blank - 8

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view of font and cover

INFORMATION

FontID: 07122POR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dubricius
Church Patron Saints: St. Dubricius aka Devereux, Dubric, Dyfrig]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just S of the A39, inland of Porlock Bay, 8 km W of Minehead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "an old stone font lined with lead". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Pevsner (1958). The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with blank shields in octafoil frames, the chamfered underbowl with a large square flower on each panel, the bottom edge crenellated; the octagonal stem is decorated with pairs of trefoil arches or windows on each side; the lower base has a band of blank shields (8) between two roll mouldings ; there is evidence of damage and repairs to the upper rim of the basin. The wooden cover appears modern and consists of a tallish octagonal base with a crowned edge, topped with a pyramidal upper volume tapering to the finial; there is a running inscription in English around the sides of the lower volume.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th - 20th century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958