Middle Chinnock

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13409CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A30, 8 km WSW of Yeovil
Font Notes:
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, p. 236
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 11 March 2008]