Otterhampton / Otramestone / Otremetone
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Results: 4 records
design element - patterns - X-motif - inside a square or saltire
Scene Description: two bands of it
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover in context - east side
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view of font and cover in context - west side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3966] [accessed 4 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13468OTT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant since 1988] [earlier St. Peter's]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints [earlier dedicated to St. Peter]
Church Location: Otterhampton, Bridgwater TA5 2PT, UK -- Tel.: +44 845 303 2760
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Locate off the A39, 9 km NW of Bridgewater, on the W banks of the Parrett
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Cannington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross [www.britainexpress.com] for the photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Otterhampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2443/otterhampton/] [accessed 4 April 2018], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) report a Norman font in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, circular. At the foot two friezes of saltire crosses." The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "The church contains a 12th-century font with an early 17th-century cover". The Churches Conservation Trust [www.visitchurches.org.uk/content.php?nID=11®ion=Somerset&churchID=217] [accessed 2 April 2008] notes a "Norman font with a Jacobean cover".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.183056, -3.079722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 59″ N, 3° 4′ 47″ W
UTM: 30U 494428 5670185
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century (early)
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929