Middle Chinnock
Results: 2 records
B01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: design element - motifs - foliage - beaded foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 13409CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A30, 8 km WSW of Yeovil
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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Described in Wade & Wade (1929): "a (late) Norm[an] font, with an unusual moulding". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Tub-shaped, Norman, with a band of beaded foliage." Described in the National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=263751] [accessed 18 September 2009]: "font of C12 with unusual scroll band decoration to bowl, on slightly later base".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929