Westonzoyland / Sowi / Weston Zoyland

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Westonzoyland,_Somerset_(5528328859).jpg] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far [east] end, right [south] side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4962837] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4962915] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Westonzoyland, St. Mary's Church: The font, moved here within the last year".
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2009 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13498WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Main Rd, Westonzoyland, Bridgwater TA7 0EB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1278 691098
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A372, 6 km ESE of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end [may have been moved in 2015]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Middle]zoy and Weston[zoy]land [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/middlezoy-and-westonzoyland/] [accessed 1 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade and Wade (1929) report a font "with curious hoops" in this church. Pevsner (1958), in his entry for Croscombe, mentions the fonts at Meare and Weston Zoyland as sharing the "series of heavy horizontal mouldings"; in his entry for Weston Zoyland Pevsner (ibid.) describes it as "Perp[endicular], octagonal, of an unusual shape". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "There was a church by 1189, one of the seven then placed in the immediate jurisdiction of Glastonbury abbey [...] A vicar had been appointed by 1231" and mentions a "14th-century font" in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST3516934790] notes: "C14 font, C19 cover". The font is octagonal all over, and decorated with several parallel mouldings on basin and base; stands on a small square plinth. The wooden cover is a low octagonal pyramid with carved panels and finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1087, -2.9264
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 6′ 31.32″ N, 2° 55′ 35.04″ W
UTM: 30U 505152 5661915

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929