Lamyatt / Lamyat
Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2008
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Results: 4 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Allan Soedring in the ASTOFT Index [http://www.astoft.co.uk/lamyatt.htm] [accessed 25 March 2008]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Allan Soedring in the ASTOFT Index [http://www.astoft.co.uk/lamyatt.htm] [accessed 25 March 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Allan Soedring in the ASTOFT Index [http://www.astoft.co.uk/lamyatt.htm] [accessed 25 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Allan Soedring in the ASTOFT Index [http://www.astoft.co.uk/lamyatt.htm] [accessed 25 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13444LAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. John
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. John
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A371, 3 km NW of Bruton, 8-9 km SE of Shepton Mallet
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Allan Soedring, of www.astoft.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Wade & Wade (1929) report "a Norm[an] font with cable moulding" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Font. Norman, circular, with a cable-moulding at the foot of the bowl." Pevsner (ibid.) notes a 15th-century font vover. The lower half of the pedestal is made of several blocks, and the lower volume of the base appears to have been repaired [?] with cement. The wooden cover is flat, thin, round and plain, probably modern [NB: not known where the cover noted in Pevsner is]. A recent [2004?] photograph of this font can be found in the ASTOFT Index [http://www.astoft.co.uk/lamyatt.htm] [accessed 25 March 2008]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: the cover on the font as seen in the photograph is a simple modern one; the 15th-century cover noted in Pevsner (1958) was not visible [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929