Monksilver / Selve / Selvre

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8

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

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - piping

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: several

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2005 by ChurchCrawler [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/66006] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09548MON

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Front Street, Monksilver TA4 4HZ, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

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)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: Sir Francis Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham in this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1286, -3.3263

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 42.96″ N, 3° 19′ 34.68″ W

UTM: 30U 477167 5664176

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-. Accessed: 2018-03-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919

Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850