East Chinnock

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - water-holding moulding

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 13408CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A30, 7 km WSW of Yeovil
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [base only?] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
East Chinnock St. Mary's is noted in Wade & Wade (1929) as "a church which retains no remains of antiquity except a piscina and a font. " Noted in Pevsner (1958): "Font. Good. C13 base with deep moulding." Described in the National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=263609] [accessed 18 September 2009]: "octagonal font on circular base with water-holding moulding, possibly of C13".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: "circular base with water-holding moulding" [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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