Somerton nr. Yeovil / Sumertone / Summertone
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2022)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - ceiling - detail
Scene Description: the anchoring of the font cover pulley?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4962421] [accessed 7 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4962339] [accessed 7 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4962319] [accessed 7 February 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2006 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2006 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14350SOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels [earlier dedication to St. Michael only]
Church Notes: original church pre-1140; present church 13thC; re-built 15th, late-19thC
Church Address: Market Pl, Somerton TA11 7NB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 272029
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present font appears to have been re-cut) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 519138 5655915
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.054444, -2.726944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 3′ 16″ N, 2° 43′ 37″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.