East Coker

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B01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 13413COK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SSW of Yeovil
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: T.S. Eliot's ashes are buried in the churchyard (his ancestors were from this village)
Font Notes:
Wade & Wade (1929) report a "Norm[an] font with cable moulding" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, with one cable moulding."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
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