Baltonsborough / Baltunesberge

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in an octafoil

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph takn 30 March 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3928773] [accessed 8 May 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the back

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14574BAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dunstan

Church Patron Saints: St. Dunstan

Church Location: Church Walk. off Martin Street, Baltonsborough, Somerset, BA6 8RL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1458 851641

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3151, 7 km SE of Glastonbury, N of Butleigh, SE of Street

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Glaston-Twelve-Hides -- Hundred of Glastonbury [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Baltonsborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5434/baltonsborough/] [accessed 8 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Phelps (1836) writes: "The general character of the [church] building is about the fourteenth century [...] The font is ancient, and resembles the one at Butleigh, but without the lamb and dove." Noted in Pevsner (1958) as a font "of the usual Perp[endicular] type". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 9, 2006) notes: "There was a church in Baltonsborough village by 1168. [...] It was a dependent chapelry of Butleigh [...] The church of St. Dunstan, so dedicated by 1536, (fn. 352) is more impressive than its chapelry status would suggest. It was entirely built in the 15th century [...] The interior retains many original features, including piscinae in chancel and nave, sedilia, aumbry, font, stone pulpit, plain pews, stand for an almsbox, and a traceried south door [...] Eighteenth-century refurbishment involved the painting of a gallery in 1715, together with the pulpit, font, pillars, and arches". The font consists of an octagonal basin with large quatrefoils with inscribed blank shields on some of the sides the sides, on others a floral motif in an octafoil, and graded moulding around the underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with a rectangular panels on the sides; moulded lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1106, -2.656

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 6′ 38.16″ N, 2° 39′ 21.6″ W

UTM: 30U 524081 5662180

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-05-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836