Ilminster

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

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13435ILM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary [aka The Minster]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located at the A308-A303 crossroads, 16 km SE of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Wade & Wade (1929) note a "font (probably once attached to a pillar)". Described in Pevsner (1958). Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with pointed quatrefoil panels inscribing floral motifs, the underbowl chamfer with eight very large foliage motifs and a ring moulding below; the octagonal stem is decorated with a trefoil arch or window on each side.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

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