Thurlbear / Durle-Burrow / Orchard Portman / Thurlbare / Thurlbeer / Thurlbury / Torlaberie

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: photograph by R.C. Sansome of a 1846 watercolour by S.G. Tovey, in R.A. Sixsmith's 'A History of Thurlbear' (1957)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13486THU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas

Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Taunton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in te W end, under the bellfry

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

Jeboult (1873) notes: "The font is plain, and apparently very ancient." Wade & Wade (1929) report "an early font under the belfry" of this church. The 'Listed Buildings' of the Taunton Deane Borough Council [list entry date 25 Feb. 1955] [http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/tdbcsites/her/her_lb/lbdets.asp?id=001871] [accessed 6 April 2008] notes a Norman circular font in the church of St. Thomas, Orchard Portman, Thurlbear. The font is illustrated in a 1846 watercolour by S.G. Tovey in the Stoke St. Mary Village web site [http://www.stokestmary.net/stthompic5.htm] [accessed 6 April 2008]. It consists of a rounded basin raised on a cylindrical pedestal base of two volumes, the lower taller and wider. It has a round flat cover with a turned knob; plain; appears modern. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873