Norton-sub-Hamdon No. 2

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [http://www.nortonchurch.org.uk/interior.asp] [accessed 30 March 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (from M. Hamlin, PCC, email of 16 April 2008)

LB01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper, 2004 [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/NortonSubHamdon/StMary3.html] [accessed 30 March 2008]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the new font partly visible in the foregorund, left-hand side

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [http://www.nortonchurch.org.uk/interior.asp] [accessed 30 March 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (from M. Hamlin, PCC, email of 16 April 2008)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [http://www.nortonchurch.org.uk/interior.asp] [accessed 30 March 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (from M. Hamlin, PCC, email of 16 April 2008)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Phil Rose

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Colin Hinson (e-mail of 18 April 2010)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper, 2004 [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/NortonSubHamdon/StMary3.html] [accessed 30 March 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09879NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A356, just S of the A303 junction and Martock

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end

Date: 1904

Century and Period: 20th century (early),

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Henry Wilson

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Martyn Hamlin, Hon. Sec. Norton-sub-Hamdon PCC, for the photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Wade & Wade (1929) write: "The modern and very ugly font is made of a single block of alabaster." Described in Pevsner (1958) as the work of "Henry Wilson, Sedding's principal pupil" [i.e., John Dando Sedding (1838-1891), Victorian church architect]. A recent [2004] photograph of this font by Phil Draper can be found at [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/NortonSubHamdon/StMary3.html] [accessed 30 March 2008]. Recent [?] photographs of the church and the font are available in the Parish web site [http://www.nortonchurch.org.uk/interior.asp] [accessed 30 March 2008]. It is a baptismal font of original design [the reason for its inclusion in this Index despite its late date, 1904: it has the tub-shaped form of the Norman tradition, to which it has added a pattern of helicoidal ribs, much like, for instance, the Gothic font at Barcelona cathedral; the lower base is a square, with four monsters, something between a water-dragon and a monkfish, that share a single body shaped like a roll-moulding around the bottom of the basin, and then lie at the four angles of the base. It appears to be made of a white marble with ochre veins. It stands on a square plinth]. The font cover is a small octagonal table-like structure, with open sides forming an arcade, the sides decorated with tracery.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, alabaster

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1904

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929