Wayford
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view of church exterior in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Chipchase, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2013 by Nick Chipchase [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3332358] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13491WAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Church [aka Chapel] of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Park Lane, Wayford, Crewkerne TA188QG , UK -- Tel.: 01460 72047
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B3165, 5 km SW of Crewkerne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Crewkerne
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Wayford in the Domesday survey. The font here is described in Pulman (1854) as "very large and of octagonal shape" and located under the west gallery. Wade & Wade (1929) report "an old octagonal font" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "A chapel at Wayford was first mentioned in 1266 [...] The chapel, with cure of souls, was a daughter to Crewkerne, though the incumbent was always styled rector [...] It is a small plain stone structure, mostly rendered, comprising chancel, north vestry, nave, north aisle, south porch, and western bell turret. The chancel and nave are of later-13-th-century origin" [there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry]. The entry for this church in the British Listed Buildings site [Listing NGR: ST4048006655] reports: "plain octagonal font of uncertain date, but possibly C14". The entry for this church in the Wulfric Benefice site [www.wulfric.org/our-churches/st-michael-and-all-angels-wayford/] [accessed 14 February 2018] notes: "The octagonal font is 14th century."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 510769 5633856
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8563, -2.847
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 22.68″ N, 2° 50′ 49.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pulman, George P.R., The Book of the Axe: containing a piscatorial description of the stream, and a history of all the parishes and remarkable spots upon its banks […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, p. 166 fn1
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 8 April 2008]