Old Cleeve / Clive
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design element - motifs - panel
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken14 September 2008 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/2878530561] [accessed 5 March 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible on the right [south] side, including a partial view of the pulley that raises the cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken14 September 2008 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/2878530561] [accessed 5 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 13412CLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Old Cleeve, Minehead TA24 6HJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1984 641808
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, 3 km WSW of Watchet, SE of Minehead, NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Old] Cleeve [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0441/old-cleeve/] [accessed 5 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) report "a good Perp[endicular] font" in this church. The font-cover is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919). Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], panelled stem, pointed quatrefoils on the bowl. Pretty cover of ogee outline, also with blank panelling." The entry for this church in Historic England reports [Listing NGR: ST0409541916]: "Perpendicular octagonal font with handsome Victorian cover raised by a pulley, probably incorporating Medieval woodwork". Thye entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "The church of Cleeve was given by Robert FitzGerold to the abbey of Bec-Hellouin (Eure) early in the 12th century [...] The church of ST. ANDREW, so dedicated by 1346 [...] Medieval tiles surround the base of the 15th-century font".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1683, -3.3753
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 5.88″ N, 3° 22′ 31.08″ W
UTM: 30U 473761 5668608
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century / Jacobean / Victorian?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-03-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929