Chard / Cerdre
Image copyright © Parish of Chard, 2009
PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Chard, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.stmaryschard.co.uk/history.html [accessed 6 February 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
BU01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Chard, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.stmaryschard.co.uk/history.html [accessed 6 February 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Chard, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.stmaryschard.co.uk/history.html [accessed 6 February 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Chard, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.stmaryschard.co.uk/history.html [accessed 6 February 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14251CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Chard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church St, Chard TA20 2DN, United Kingdom
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A30-A358 cross-roads, 13 km NNE of Axminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath and Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Kingsbury Episcopi [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church here)
Font Notes:
Click to view
Described in Pulman (1854): " The font and its stem are octagonal, and are ornamented with quatrefoils and the Tudor rose". Described in Pevsner (1958). The octagonal basin has that symbol inscribed in a quatrefoil on each side; the underbowl chamfer has a square flower on each panel; the octagonal stem is decorated with trefoiled arches or windows. The wooden cover has an octagonal platform with an added metal railing on it, the dome tapering to a ball finial. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST3230408205] notes the early period of the church itself: "Church. Late C11/early C12 origins; rebuilt C15" but dates the font to the latter century: "C15 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels and restored cover".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 118
- 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. 241-242 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=7vcGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=hawkchurch+church&source=bl&ots=TjjxLXpAV-&sig=_dtNZhp4BN5ikgeudqfOs24TWIU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 3 February 2009]