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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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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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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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13467OTT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
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
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century / 14th - 15th century, Norman? / Late Medieval?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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