Northover
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2012 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3018096] [accessed 12 February 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13459NPR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew [redundant; now disused and in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: minster church of the Anglo-Saxon period on this site;
Church Address: Northover, Ilchester, Yeovil BA22 8LD, UK -- Tel.: +44 845 303 2760
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3151, just N of Ilchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Tintinhull
Font Notes:
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The entry for this Northover in Kelly's Directory of Somerset [http://forebears.io/england/somerset/northover] [accessed 12 February 2018] notes: "the font is a fine specimen of Early Norman work". Wade & Wade (1929) report a Norman font in this church. A drawing of this old font is listed in The Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (SANHS), Pridham's Survey of Somerset Church Fonts [www.sanhs.org/Documents/Fonts.pdf] [accessed 12 February 2018]. Pevsner (1958), however, notes "No furnishings of interest" in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST5234823141] mentions no font in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "The church at Northover, judging by the size of its estate probably in origin a Saxon minster, occurs in the Confessor's time", but mentions no font in it. [NB: despite the statements in the early sources above we have been unable to ascertain the presence of the Norman (?) font in this church [February 2018]].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 522412 5650522
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.005833, -2.680556
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 0′ 21″ N, 2° 40′ 50″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 260
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]