Charlton Mackrell / West Charlton
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Results: 5 records
BU01: 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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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
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/335058/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]
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view of 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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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
Font ID: 13397CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [was it ever dedicated to St. Martin?]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3153, 4 km E of Somerton, 6 km N of Ilchester
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge for the photographs of these fonts
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.