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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13435ILM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary [aka The Minster]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the A308-A303 crossroads, 16 km SE of Taunton
Additional Comments: altered font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
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, p. 208
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]