Charlton Mackrell / West Charlton

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Results: 5 records

BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/335058/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/335058/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 19th-century font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/335058/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13397CHA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [was it ever dedicated to St. Martin?]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3153, 4 km E of Somerton, 6 km N of Ilchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge for the photographs of these fonts
Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). Noted in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974): "The church contains an early 13th-century font with a circular bowl and a 'water-holding' base". Also noted in the VCH (ibid.) is the lid: "The cover of the 13th-century font lies in the churchyard by the south wall of the church". A later font with a complex high cover, both pieces Victorian, is located at the west end of the nave; it was installed in the church during the 1847 restoration. Both fonts are illustrated in Tony Ethridge's Somerset Villages [digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/335058/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]. Ethridge notes the old font is still in use.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 13th-century?
Notes: reported in the churchyard ca. 1974 [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.