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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 13492WEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory
Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A38, 4 km W of Cheddar
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman / Early English?
Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports: "The font is very old, evidently Early English". Wade & Wade (1929) report a "square Norm[an] font" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Square, Norman, fluted on the underside" [NB: the fluting would be the one created by the 'trumpet scallops' on the lower sides of the basin]. Described in Phil Draper (2004) [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Weare/StGregory2.html] [accessed 8 April 2008]: "Bulky square Norman font with chamfered corners and some scaloping underneath (as well as damage too)".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929