East Coker

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13413COK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: T.S. Eliot's ashes are buried in the churchyard (his ancestors were from this village)
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SSW of Yeovil
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, p. 161
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 12 March 2008]