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B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 4?
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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B02: design element - motifs - unidentified - in a quatrefoil - 4?
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BU01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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BU02: design element - motifs - piping
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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UB01: design element - motifs - niche - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13673LIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late?), Late Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, near the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km from Ilchester, 8 km N of Yeovil
Font Notes:
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The November 1882 issue of The Antiquary (p. 195) suggests that the font was donated to this church late in the 16th century. The present font consists of an octagonal basin with deeply carved quatrefoils that inscribe shields and other motifs that are too worn for identification; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with tall trefoil arches or windows, piping at the angles and a moulding at the bottom,. where it meets the octagonal stem, itself decorated with nichs on the sides; the moulded lower base is also octagonal. The wooden cover consists of a flat octagonal platform with broad raised crocketed ribs around a central pivot; appears Victorian. No font mentioned in Pevsner (1958). [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
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