Monksilver / Selve / Selvre
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - motifs - lozenge - in a quatrefoil
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChurchCrawler, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2005 by ChurchCrawler [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/66006] [accessed 7 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John C, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2016 by John C [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5674788] [accessed 7 March 2018]
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design element - motifs - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09548MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: Sir Francis Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham in this church
Church Address: Front Street, Monksilver TA4 4HZ, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3188, between Nettlecombe {W) and Stogumber (SE), 5 km W of Williton, 16 km SE of Minehead, 22 km NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton and Freemanors (eastern)
Additional Comments: disappeared font (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Monksilver [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0737/monksilver/] [accessed 7 March 2018], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Baptismal font cover illustrated in Parker (1850). The baptismal font [of the 15th century?] has an early cone-shaped font-cover according to Friar (2003). The octagonal basin has large quatrefoil panels inscribing blank shields and lozenges (?); the underbowl is concave and is flush with the octagonal stem, the piping of the trefoil arches of the underbowl continuing downwards all the way to the moulded lower base. The octagonal pyramidal cover has crocketed arrises; it is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919) as similar to the 15th-century cover at Ashby St. Ledgers. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "The 12th-century window on the north side of the chancel predates the first reference to the church at Monksilver in 1291 [...] The north wall of the chancel and possibly that of the nave are of the 12th century [...] The font dates from the 15th century".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 477167 5664176
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.1286, -3.3263
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 7′ 42.96″ N, 3° 19′ 34.68″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 201
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 321
- Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850, p. 212