Nunney
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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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LB02: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a leaf at each of the angles of the lower base
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view of font
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Judith White, 2004
Image Source: Judith White
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view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Judith White, 2004
Image Source: Judith White
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view of font and cover in context
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10013NUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A361, 4 km SW of Frome, about 25 km S of Bath
Additional Comments: damaged font: repaired at the upper rim side
Font Notes:
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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".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Judith White, and to Tony Ethridge of Somerset Villages, for the photographs of this site.
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, p. 371 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 238
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]