East Chinnock

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13408CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only?] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A30, 7 km WSW of Yeovil
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font?
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, p. 161
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 11 March 2008]