Stocklinch Ottersey

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Results: 3 records

B01: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus?

Scene Description: the font as it was before the 19th-century alteration

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stocklinch Benefit, 2008

Image Source: original source unknown -- in the Stocklinch Benefit web site [http://www.stocklinch.org.uk/Churches.htm#MaryMagdalene] [accessed 6 April 2008]

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LB01: design element - motifs - claw or spur - 4

Scene Description: the font as it was before the 19th-century alteration

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stocklinch Benefit, 2008

Image Source: original source unknown -- in the Stocklinch Benefit web site [http://www.stocklinch.org.uk/Churches.htm#MaryMagdalene] [accessed 6 April 2008]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font after the 19th-century alteration

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Catchpole, 2008

Image Source: photograph by Stephen Catchpole [http://www.stocklinch.org.uk/Churches.htm#MaryMagdalene] [accessed 6 April 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13482STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A303, 4 km NE of Ilminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
The Stocklinch Benefit web site [http://www.stocklinch.org.uk/Churches.htm#MaryMagdalene] [accessed 6 April 2008] claims that "the font at Ottersey church is Norman, that at Magdalen [sic] is Saxon [...] The font was refashioned at some time between 1850 and 1898 to provide it with a stem between the bowl and the base." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, plain and round; modern?