Combe Martin / Cumbe

There is an entry for Combe [Martin] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SS5846/combe-martin/] [accessed 28 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Hussell (1910) as Early Perpendicular, of ca, 1415, and reports: "The west side has been disfigured, the tracery being cut completely away. It retains however traces of some colouring. The coving below the basin has curved paterae work on it -- four-leaved and quatrefoil design." Described and illustrated in Stabb (1908-1916): "The font [...] is octagonal, Perpendicular, and bears the remains of ccolouring; the sides carved with arches; the bowl is deeper than usual, and is mounted on a short shaft with supporting pillars; the whole standing on a deep plith." [NB: the adjective "deep" is often used at the time -mid19th century- to describe 'height', as in: "the bowl is deeper than usual", which refers to the extraordinary height of this basin...] In Pevsner (1952): "Font. Octagonal, Perp, with faintly recssed blank arch designs." The octagonal basin is taller than the average Perpendicular type [cf. supra], with vertical sides, each with a double Ogee window containing blind arches; the underbowl is chamfered and some of the sides appear decorated (?); the columnar base is made of a broad central shaft and four slender outer colonnettes; tall [cf. supra] octagonal lower base; polygonal plinth. The thick lead lining of the inner basin wraps around the upper rim in some spots. A holy-water stoup in the wall is noted in Hussell (1910): "at the right-hand of the south door on entering, and consists of a plain pointed recess, eight inches deep."