Puckington

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 13474PUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3168, 5 km NE of Ilminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered?]
Wade & Wade (1929) report "a Norm[an] font with cable moulding" Described in Pevsner (1958: "Norman, circular, renewed. With one cable-moulding." The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=264452] [accessed 25 September 2009] notes: "Norman tub font with cable banding, C19 cover with fine wrought-iron decoration."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century
Material: wood and metal,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929