Somerton nr. Yeovil / Sumertone / Summertone

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view of church interior - ceiling - detail

Scene Description: the anchoring of the font cover pulley?

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view of church interior - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14350SOM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels [earlier dedication to St. Michael only]

Church Location: Market Pl, Somerton TA11 7NB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 272029

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the B3153, N of the A378, NNW of Yeovil

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Somerton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: , Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Etheridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font. We are also grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: original church pre-1140; present church 13thC; re-built 15th, late-19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Somerton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4928/somerton/] [accessed 7 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. There is no mention of a font in Pevsner's entry for this church (1958). The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974): "The parish church of St. Michael and All Angels, dedicated to St. Michael alone by 1349 [...] The oldest remaining parts date from the earlier 13th century [...] The font, in the south aisle, is octagonal on a circular pedestal; it has a Jacobean cover." The font looks strange, perhaps due to some re-cutting, as the moulded upper rim does not fit the starkness of the otherwise plain octagonal basin; the moulded cylindrical stem is also out of character with the basin. Raised on a small octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is very original, unlike most of the ones of the period it is claimed to belong. Instead of the usual scroll ribs it has four wide leaf-like arms converging on a centre pivot and is topped with a ball finial; it has small urn-like ornaments between the leaves.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.054444, -2.726944

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 3′ 16″ N, 2° 43′ 37″ W

UTM: 30U 519138 5655915

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century? / Jacobean?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.