Burrow Mump, nr. Burrowbridge / Burrow Bridge / Othery Burrow Mump

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION

FontID: 14573BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Michael [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A361, 15 km ENE of Taunton
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of the church ruins
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "The chapel of St. Michael on Burrow Mump, probably so dedicated by the later Middle Ages [...] and certainly by 1548 [...] appears by the 18th century to have comprised a chancel, a central tower with a south transeptal chapel and octagonal stair turret, and a nave [...] Excavation of the site suggested the previous existence of a chapel on the north side of the chancel and of a crypt outside the north wall of the nave [...] The building seems to have been of the late 15th or the earlier 16th century. It was replaced c. 1793 by a single-cell structure with a porch in the centre of its south wall and a west tower, the remains of which still stand, owned since 1946 by the National Trust." [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the medieval church, or of the later church now in ruins]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.