Mark

Results: 4 records

BBU01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16

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BU01: angel - 8

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - 8

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UB01: design element - motifs - tracery

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 13453MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mark
Church Patron Saints: St. Mark
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3139, 7 km E of Highbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929