Thurlbear / Durle-Burrow / Orchard Portman / Thurlbare / Thurlbeer / Thurlbury / Torlaberie
Image copyright © R.C. Sansome, [1957?]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © R.C. Sansome, [1957?]
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
Font ID: 13486THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in te W end, under the bellfry
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Taunton
Font Notes:
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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, p. 92 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=h-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100&lpg=RA1-PA100&dq=west+hatch+church+font&source=bl&ots=8DPeBrOd_W&sig=MBiQ5MYBqifsAD89-vQ_wGSHaKA&hl=en&ei=woMRSv6yH4jOMqKBnbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP7,M1] [accessed 18 May 2009]