Compton Pauncefoot / Cuntone
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Des Blenkinsopp, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2012 by Des Blenkinsopp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4306849] [accessed 7 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/476389] [accessed 7 May 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The font is 13th century and is perfectly plain."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miss Steel, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2007 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/476384] [accessed 7 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13432COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset BA22 7EL
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A303, 6 km W of Wincanton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Blachethorna [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 19th century, Early English? / Victorian?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Compton [Pauncefoot] [varaint spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6426/compton-pauncefoot/] [accessed 7 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Parish site [http://myspace.surefish.co.uk/~rob.sage1/html/compton_pauncefoot.html] [accessed 16 March 2008] reproduces notes form 'A Guide to the Camelot Parishes', of which Compton Pauncefoot is part: "The Font is 13th century and is perfectly plain." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: ST6440226161] (1961), however, notes :"font possibly C19, plain octagonal bowl on circular shaft". Not mentioned in Wade & Wade (1929) or in Pevsner (1958).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.033333, -2.508783
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 02′ 00″ N, 2° 30′ 31.62″ W
UTM: 30U 534444 5653646
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal box with decorated sides between mouldings; metal decoration atop; metal cross finial; modern