Cannington / Candetone / Cantetone

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 8

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding - double

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view of basin - interior

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover near the west door

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12028CAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Street, Cannington, Somerset TA5 2HS, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, 5 km WNW of Bridgwater

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Cannington

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font

Church Notes: present church 15thC re-building of earlier building; restored mid-19thC

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There are three entries for Cannington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST2539/cannington/] [accessed 17 January 2018], one of which, the lord of which was "Erchenger, the priest", reports a church in it. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992): "In 1086 Erchenger the priest held of the king in the church of Cannington ½ virgates which Aelfric the priest had held in 1066 [...] Robert de Curci evidently gave the church c. 1138 as part of the endowment of Cannington priory [...] The north respond of the 12th-century chancel arch, visible in the vestry, and the weathering of the earlier nave roof on the tower, are evidence of the size and form of the church before the 15th century [...] he font is of the early 15th century". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with a rosette inscribed in a pointed quatrefoil on each side; the underbowl is also octagonal, a large Tudor rose on each panel, and parallel mouldings below; octagonal stem with a single trefoil arch or window on each side; moulding below and splaying lower base; octagonal plinth. Octagonal pyramidal wooden cover with crenellated base, decorated sides and foliated finial. [NB: there must have been an earlier font in this church -which was dedicated to St. Mary in 1336, but around since at least Conquest times, according to the VCH and the Domesday survey- but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1502, -3.0624

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 0.72″ N, 3° 3′ 44.64″ W

UTM: 30U 495636 5666530

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; counterweight?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.