Nunney

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Results: 9 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
LB02: design element - motifs - foliage
view of church exterior - west end
view of font
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 10013NUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A361, 4 km SW of Frome, about 25 km S of Bath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W doorway
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Judith White, and to Tony Ethridge of Somerset Villages, for the photographs of this site.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Handbook for travellers… (1869) reports a Norman font in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) report "a heavy Norman font" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, circular, with a kind of coarse spiral fluting.- The cover is plain, polygonal, of Jacobean type, yet dated 1684." The font, probably of the late 11th or early 12th century, is tub-shaped, the sides tapering roundly towards the bottom, and decorated with broad diagonal ribs that end in a roll moulding on the lower basin; below this is a narrow plain gap that ends in another roll moulding with leaf motif at 90-degree angles which match the corners of the square lower base; it is raised on a crude irregular plinth only slightly wider than the lower base; one of the sides of the upper side and rim show evidence of a repair [new inset stone], probably after the removal of the cover hardware. Tall pyramidal wooden cover, round at the very bottom but four-sided otherwise, with knob-like finial; it is inscribed "WS / 1694".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Initials and numbers
Inscription Location: on the font cover
Inscription Text: "WS / 1684"
Inscription Source: photograph
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1684
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929