North Barrow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rod Morris, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Rod Morris [http://www.aboutbritain.com/towns/north-barrow.asp] [accessed 23 September 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13364BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A359, about halfway between Frome (NNE) and Yeovil (SSW)
Additional Comments: altered font? modern base
Font Notes:
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Phelps (1836) mentions "a niche for holy water" in the porch of this church, but no font. The font is described in Wade & Wade (1929) as "a very curious font of uncertain date, standing on a modern pedestal". Noted on the English Heritage site [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=430613] [accessed 2 March 2008]: "hexigonal [sic] tulip-bowl font with ribs to angles, on single chamfered square plinth and base, possibly C13". The font appears to be a composite arrangement; the basin is very irregular, and is raised on a quadrangular multi-block stem with chamfered sides and a moulded square lower base; probably moder, as indicated in Phelps. The cover is round, flat and plain, with a Latin cross finial/handle; modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836, vol. 1: 447 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=IAQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA589&lpg=PA589&dq=butleigh+church+font&source=bl&ots=YU0c4LRPgk&sig=u9wX07aEBfabcQ5OyhJwDvZHqXg&hl=en&ei=NcH9SYDHKY-UMtOp0c8E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP7,M1] [accessed 3 May 2009]
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 1 March 2008]