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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: much eroded now

Image Source: digital photographtaken in 2003 by Neil Marchant [www.westgallerychurches.com/som/st_audries/st_audries.html] [accessed 28 March 2018]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photographtaken in 2003 by Neil Marchant [www.westgallerychurches.com/som/st_audries/st_audries.html] [accessed 28 March 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Etheldreda's parish church, West Quantoxhead, Somerset, seen from the south. In front of the porch are the base and broken shaft of the 15th-century churchyard cross. This church was built in 1854 to replace a medieval building that was falling apart. The dedicatee was Ethelreda of Ely, who was the virgin queen of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria. The church and the village itself are also known as St Audries, after another Northumbrian queen." FONT digital photographtaken in 2003 by Neil Marchant [www.westgallerychurches.com/som/st_audries/st_audries.html] [accessed 28 March 2018] PERMISSION REQUESTED

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/3043314300] [accesssed 28 March 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast

Scene Description: the font and its cover are partially visibl in the foreground, by the north arcade pillar on the right

Image Source: 'The Quantock on-line' [www.quantockonline.co.uk]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photographtaken in 2003 by Neil Marchant [www.westgallerychurches.com/som/st_audries/st_audries.html] [accessed 28 March 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10534QUA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Etheldreda [aka St. Audries' / St. Audrey]

Church Patron Saints: St. Etheldreda [aka Audrey, Æðelþryð, Æþelðryþe, Æthelthryth, Ediltrudis]

Church Location: West Quantoxhead, Taunton, Somerset TA4 4DS, UK -- Tel.: 01278732873

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A39, just NE of Staple, 25 km W of Bridgewater

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Williton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the crypt

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [West] Quantoxhead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1142/west-quantoxhead/] [accessed 28 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports: "the font is of Devon marble, supported by eight pillars of Cornish serpentine, on a base of Plymouth black marble" [NB" Kelly was obviously descrbing the modern font, and makes no mention of the old one]. Noted as "a Norman font" in the crypt of St. Audrey's church in an article by Jill Bailey (30 November 1973), reproduced in 'The Weston & Somerset Mercury' of 21 January 2005. Described as "a Saxon or early Norman font" located in the crypt [source: article in 'The Quantock on-line' [www.quantockonline.co.uk] with information provided by Duncan Stafford, resident and local historian of West Quantoxhead]. There is another font in the church, "a marble font" reported in the National Gazetteer of 1868, probably Victorian, not included in this Index. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "church had been established by 1265 when the bishop appointed a rector on the direction of the king's council during the Barons' War [...] [The present] church of ST. ETHELDREDA, designed in a late 13th-century style by John Norton and built in 1854–6 [...] replaced a medieval church which had a chancel, said to have been rebuilt c. 1583 [...] The plain 12th-century font survives from the previous church." The old font consists of a tub-shaped basin with a damaged roll moulding at the upper rim; on a round pedestal base with a thin moulding below the underbowl, a sloghtly splaying lower base. The flat round cover is modern, all of it of wood.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.170429, -3.269956

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 13.54″ N, 3° 16′ 11.84″ W

UTM: 30U 481127 5668812

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain with wooden handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-03-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.