Combe St. Nicholas No. 1 / Cumbe
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
staning permission
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Lamb and the Parish of Combe St. Nicholas, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.combestnicholas.org.uk/about_the_parish/churchhistory.htm [accessed 12 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2008)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Lamb and the Parish of Combe St. Nicholas, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.combestnicholas.org.uk/about_the_parish/churchhistory.htm [accessed 12 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2008)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352035/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: staning permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13414COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Vicarage Hill, Combe St Nicholas, Somerset, TA20 3NG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A358, NW of Chard, SSW of Ilminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Kingsbury Episcopi [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Lamb, of www.combestnicholas.org.uk, and to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for their photographs of this font
There is an entry for Combe [St Nicholas] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST3011/combe-st-nicholas/] [accessed 28 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) report that "two ancient fonts are kept in the W. end of the church". The 'History of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas' [http://www.combestnicholas.org.uk/about_the_parish/churchhistory.htm] [accessed 12 March 2008] provides a description and illustration of both fonts: "A sandstone font, probably pre-Conquest, may be found near the south door [...] It is a circular monolithic hollowed stone bowl with a large circular drain. The top is badly worn, apparently by knife sharpening. [...] At the east end of the north aisle is a 15th century carved stone font on a 20th century plain octagonal base" [actually, a plinth]. [NB: a note (e-mail of 17 March 2008) received from the Parish adds: "The older font, probably Saxon, was thrown out of the church during restoration work at the end of the 19thC, but was rescued".] Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.895833,
-2.993333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 53′ 45″ N,
2° 59′ 36″ W
UTM: 30U 500469 5638241
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929
