Fivehead

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BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Barrett, 2008

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in [http://www.fivehead-village.org.uk/st__martin's.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]

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BBU01: design element - motifs - saltire - in a rectangle

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Barrett, 2008

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in [http://www.fivehead-village.org.uk/st__martin's.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Barrett, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.fivehead-village.org.uk/st__martin's.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 16 March 2008)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Barrett, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.fivehead-village.org.uk/st__martin's.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 16 March 2008)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13425FIV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A378, 13 km E of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrew Barrett, of http://www.fivehead-village.org.uk/st__martin's.htm, for the photographs of church and font
Wade & Wade (1929) report: "an ancient Norm[an] font with double mouldings". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, circular, with a frieze of saltire crosses at the top and a cable-moulding at the bottom of the bowl." Noted and illustrated in the village website [http://www.fivehead-village.org.uk/st__martin's.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]: "The font is Norman, dating from the second half of the 12th century." The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with two bands of motif: around the upper basin side is a pattern of saltire-in-a-rectangle; around the lower rim is a thick rope moulding; it is raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a square lower base, the whole on a narrow square plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat, with a raised cross motif and squat knob handle; appears modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929