Ruishton
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [2007?] in Worldisround [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/336939/photo15.html] [accessed 5 April 2008]
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B02: design element - architectural - pinnacle - crocketed pinnacle - 8
Scene Description: a pair at each angle of the square basin, placed as finials of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [2007?] in Worldisround [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/336939/photo15.html] [accessed 5 April 2008]
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BBU01: design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: around the upper basin side; damaged and repaired with new stone insert in some spots
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [2007?] in Worldisround [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/336939/photo15.html] [accessed 5 April 2008]
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BU01: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [2007?] in Worldisround [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/336939/photo15.html] [accessed 5 April 2008]
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LB01: design element - motifs - panel
Scene Description: on the shafts of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [2007?] in Worldisround [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/336939/photo15.html] [accessed 5 April 2008]
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower side of the shafts of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [2007?] in Worldisround [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/336939/photo15.html] [accessed 5 April 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [2007?] in Worldisround [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/336939/photo15.html] [accessed 5 April 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12267RUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1380?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Early Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George, Ruishton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Address: Church Ln, Ruishton, Taunton TA3 5LL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1823 444793
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A358, 4 km E of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath and Wells
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Jeboult (1873) notes: "The font is very old, and lined with lead. It is supported by five Gothic pillars, and deserves particular notice." Wade & Wade (1929) report that the font in this church "is richly carved". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Big octagonal bowl with big square crocketed pinnacles covering the diagonals. Perp[endicular] and of an unusual design." Pevsner (ibid.) notes that the font in the churchyard at Long Sutton, Somerset, resembles this one. The online guide to Ruishton St. George's [www.ruishton.org.uk/archive/churchbook.htm] [accessed 12 October 2006] notes: "The font, dating from about 1380, is of exceptional quality, its octagonal bowl richly carved and supported by panelled shafts." The Taunton Deane Borough Council web site [www.tauntondeane.gov.uk] [accessed 12 October 2006], however, has: Extravagant late Perpendicular font, 4 square decorated shafts carrying octagonal panelled bowlon fan vaulting pier, crockets and quatrefoil decoration." The general design of this base and underbowl resemble the ones seen on the fonts at Queen's Camel (Somerset) and Broadhembury (Devon), both dated in Bond (1908 c1985) to the 15th century, but the basin decoration is quite different from the other two.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal reinforcements
REFERENCES
- A guide to St. George's Church, Ruishton, [Ruishton?]: [The Parish?], [ca. 1990?], [www.ruishton.org.uk/archive/churchbook.htm] [accessed 12 October 2006]
- Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873, p. 81 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=h-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100&lpg=RA1-PA100&dq=west+hatch+church+font&source=bl&ots=8DPeBrOd_W&sig=MBiQ5MYBqifsAD89-vQ_wGSHaKA&hl=en&ei=woMRSv6yH4jOMqKBnbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP7,M1] [accessed 18 May 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 221, 283
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 5 April 2008]