Combe St. Nicholas No. 2 / Cumbe

Image copyright © David Lamb and the Parish of Combe St. Nicholas, 2008

Permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2008)

Results: 6 records

B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352035/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352035/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

Scene Description: one on each of the lower sides of the underbowl

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352035/index.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior

view of font and cover

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 and cover 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: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13415COM
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, in the E end of the N aisle
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] -- 20th century [base only] [composite font], Late Medieval
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
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]. The wooden cover on the 15th-century font is also modern.

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
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with four screen-like ribs around a centre pivot; modern

REFERENCES

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929