Ruishton

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Results: 7 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 4

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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

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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?

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LB01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: on the shafts of the base

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower side of the shafts of the base

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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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12267RUI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A358, 4 km E of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1380?
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Early Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
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.

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?]
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929