Otterford
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Blackdown Benefice web site [http://www.blackdown.org.uk/ott/flower_show.shtml] [accessed 2 April 2008]
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BU02: symbol - shield - blank
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Blackdown Benefice web site [http://www.blackdown.org.uk/ott/flower_show.shtml] [accessed 2 April 2008]
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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Blackdown Benefice web site [http://www.blackdown.org.uk/ott/flower_show.shtml] [accessed 2 April 2008]
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Blackdown Benefice web site [http://www.blackdown.org.uk/ott/flower_show.shtml] [accessed 2 April 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground, righ side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2008
Image Source: digtal photograph by Phil Draper [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Otterford/StLeonard2.html] [accessed 2 April 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13467OTT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 14th - 15th century, Norman? / Late Medieval?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Otterford is located off the A303, 10 km NW of Chard. The church itself is 4 km away on a hill top
Additional Comments: disappeared font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Wade & Wade (1929) write: "The church [...] is not of great interest, but contains a stoup, a piscina, and a Norm[an] font" [NB: there is no indication of the age of the stoup, but it is presumably medieval]. The font shown in the Blackdown Benefice web page for Otterford St. Leonard's [http://www.blackdown.org.uk/ott/flower_show.shtml] [accessed 2 April 2008] consists of an octagonal basin decorated with large quatrefoil panels, with a tall chamfer decorated with a variety of motifs, including at least one blank shield, raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with trefoil arches or windows. It appears medieval, but certainly not Norman [Was/Is there an earlier font?]. A recent [2008] photograph of this font by Phil Draper can be found at [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Otterford/StLeonard2.html] [accessed 2 April 2008]
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: octagonal and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 2 April 2008]