Charlinch / Cerdesling / Charlynch / Nether Stowey?

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: dated in the CRSBI as "12thc work"; why? -- there is a metal staple from an old cover anchoring still visible in the upper rim, right side
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Image Source: digital mage of a photograph by Robin Downes in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1623/] [ accessed 4 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Grainger, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by Ken Grainger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1236713] [accessed 4 April 2018]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: the CRSBI source does not give the date when the photograph was taken
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital mage of a photograph by Robin Downes in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1623/] [ accessed 4 April 2018]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 13395CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church od St. Mary [redundant in 1981; a private house since 1986]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Charlinch, nr Spaxton, Somerset, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A39, SW of Cannington, 8 km W of Bridgwater. 15 km N of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Canning
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century / 14th - 15th century, Late Norman? / Decorated?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Philip Nokes, of the Bath & Wells Anglican Diocese, for the information on this font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Charlinch [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2337/charlinch/] [accessed 4 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) report a Norman font in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman. Circular, fluted." Noted in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) :"12th-century font and a cover made in 1622". [NB: the VCH further notes: "The last public service was held in the church in 1981 [...] and the building was then declared redundant. It was sold for conversion to a house" [entry footnoted: "Bridgewater Mercury, 21 May 1986"]. The church is listed (Grade I) in the National Monuments Record (English Heritage) [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=269403] [accessed 9 March 2008]. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The S doorway, chancel arch responds and font are 12thc work. [...] the font has been removed to a private address which cannot be supplied -- Now at a private address. The bowl (without lead) is separated from the rest, and approximately a quarter of it is broken & placed inside the larger part. The bowl appears to have been cut at some distant time (perhaps to enable it to fit against a wall), so that approximately ¾ of the lower fluting is missing from a substantial section. The bowl was originally curved and fluted with, at its bottom, a shallow cylindrical section matching the stem. The cylindrical stem consists of five blocks, and at its top is a shallow torus. The base consists of a simple cylinder with its upper edge chamfered into the stem." [NB: it is od that the CRSBI describes this font as "12th work", as the pattern of concave ribs or flutes hints at a much later date]. [NB: the diocesan office reply [e-mail of 11 March 2008] to our request for information: "Our records show that the font went to the churchyard of the nearby church of Nether Stowey, but they do not make it clear whether this included the font cover also."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.133949, -3.088725
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 2.21″ N, 3° 5′ 19.41″ W
UTM: 30U 493792 5664724

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining [cf. FontNotes]
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Height of Base: 20.5 cm*
Height of Central Column: 16 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 71.5 cm [calculated]
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1622
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-03-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-04-04 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929