Mark

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13453MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mark
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mark
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3139, 7 km E of Highbridge
Font Notes:
Wade & Wade (1929) report a "carved font under tower". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Stem with shafts separating blank tracery panels. Angel-busts against the underside. Small quatrefoils at the top, two in each panel (cf. Axbridge)." Described as "a fabulous Perpendicular font" by Phil Draper (2004) [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Mark/StMark2.html] [accessed 27 March 2008]

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. 230
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]