Huish Episcopi / Huish Episcopi Langport

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: the sides continuing down the stem angles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2009 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2009 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2009 by Tony Ethridge

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Huish Episcopi: south door, St Mary’s church. A splendid 12th century Norman doorway, said to be reddened by fire damage in the 13th century. The fire destroyed much of the early church and the present structure is largely Perpendicular Gothic."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1002603] [accessed 6 February 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2016 by Bill Harrison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5603781] [accessed 6 February 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2017 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary's_Church,_Huish_Episcopi_01.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2013 by Nick Chipchase [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3581095] [accessed 6 February 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end, by the south door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2009 by Tony Ethridge

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13452HUI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Huish Episcopi Langport, Somerset TA10 9QR, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A372, just E of Langport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Kingsbury (East) [principally]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S doorway

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photographs of this font

Church Notes: 12thC church damaged [almost destroyed] by fire; re-built 13thC, with later modifications

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for Huish Episcopi in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1958) writes: "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoil frieze." The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The elaborately decorated south doorway is of the 12th century and apparently in situ, but no other part of the building can be attributed to such an early date", and reports "a Perpendicular font" here. The font is octagonal, of the type where the curve of the undebowl chamfer continues down the stem without a break; the lower base and plinth may be modern, as is the wooden cover, round anf flat. Wade & Wade (1929) do not mention the font, but report "the stoup near S[outh] door" without mention of a date [NB: the original building was a Norman church which the VCH [cf. supra] dates to at least 1179, but we have no information on the earlier font of that church; it may have been destroyed in the fire that damaged much of the church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.035833, -2.818056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 2′ 9″ N, 2° 49′ 5″ W

UTM: 30U 512757 5653825

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-03-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929