Odcombe
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: notice the irregular number of arches on the two visible sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sarah Smith, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2009 by Sarah Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1179893]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the new cover on the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sarah Smith, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2009 by Sarah Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1179893]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font cover
Scene Description: the 15th-century font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2009 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13463ODC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km W of Yeovil
Additional Comments: altered font: new base
Font Notes:
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Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "an ancient font" in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) report: "the basin of the font is ancient" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Square, of the Purbeck type, with five shallow arches on each side. The lid has Perp[endicular] tracery and may be C15 or early C16." The Parish web site [http://www.odcombe-church.co.uk/index.html] [accessed 30 March 2008] notes: "As you enter the Church you are met by the ancient font, which dates from Norman times. This font of Keinton stone is unusual in that it is both twisted and lacks symmetry, having arcades of either 4 or 5 arches on each face…The font rests on a square pier of Ham stone, each side carved with a pair of trefoiled lancets. On the south wall of the Nave hangs the 15th century font cover which split and has been replaced by a plain modern one."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages for his photographs of this site
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (local Keinton stone) [basin only]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: the original one no longer in use; square and flat, with armorial design in metal [a new font cover is now in use]
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 277
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 266
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]