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B01: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8

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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14251CHA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located at the A30-A358 cross-roads, 13 km NNE of Axminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
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.

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
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