Mere / Mera
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
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Results: 9 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 8
Scene Description: the 19th-century base; the plinth is also modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 April 2012 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2912293] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: the quatrefoil is itself made of four hexafoil windows
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 April 2012 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2912293] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Michael the Archangel has served the town of Mere since the 13 century having replaced an earlier structure. It was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries and is famous for 10 misericords dating from the 14th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Len Williams, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2013 by Len Williams [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3435594] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2008 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1044793] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Nave of St Michael the Archangel at Mere, showing the 15th century oak parclose screen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2012 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2912293] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2008 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1044817] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2012 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2912293] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "The South aisle of St Michael the Archangel's church in Mere contains a font and two beautiful stained glass windows. One is located at the Eastern end in a chapel, while the Western end window can be seen in this photo."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Len Williams, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2013 by Len Williams [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3435612] [accessed 12 December 2014]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 10167MER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Church Street, Church Street, Mere, Wiltshire, BA12 6DS
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3095, 7-8 km N of Gillingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Mere
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of this font.
There are three entries for Mere [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST8132/mere/] [accessed 12 December 2014], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. English Heritage [Listing NGR: ST8111532253] (1966) reports: "Parish Church. Some remnants from c.ll90 [...] octagonal Purbeck bowl font on Cl9 granite base." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], of Purbeck marble. Shields in cupsed quetrefoils." Octagonal mounted baptismal font in the Perpendicular style, perhaps of the 15th century; the octagonal basin has vertical sides, each decorated with a blank shield inscribed in tracery (the tracery consists of a quatrefoil frame formed by four hexafoil windows around the shield); the stem of the base is octagonal with vertical sides, each decorated with a blind pointed arch. Parts of the font appear painted in blue and white. Wooden cover consisting of a flat octagonal base on which stand the typical ribs-around-a-pivot, with an acorn finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.089159,
-2.270663
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 5′ 20.97″ N,
2° 16′ 14.39″ W
UTM: 30U 551079 5659993
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912