Wyke Champflower
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2007
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 June 1999 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/455517] [accessed 25 September 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14576WYK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early?), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of the Holy Trinity or St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity / St. Mary [cf. Font Notes]
Church Address: Wyke Champflower, Bruton BA10 0PP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1749 812616
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A371,W of the A359 and 2-3 km WSW of Bruton, 11 km MW of Wincanton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath and Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Bruton
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original early-1thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Wyke Champflower found in the Domesday survey. Phelps (1836) notes: "The font is ancient". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The Church Crawler blog [http://churchcrawler.blogspot.com/2008/06/holy-trinity-wyke-champflower-somerset_5694.html] [accessed 1 October 2009] notes: "The font dates from 1945 but the cover was returned to the rebuilt church in 1623". Did the font disappear after Phelps' visit? The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST6619334307] notes: "Church. Dated 1623. [...] octagonal font on stand dated 1945, but ogee cupula cover and suspension gear is C17." [NB: the church/chapel appears dedicated to St. Mary in some sources, while others give the Holy Trinity]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 536112 5661844
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.106944, -2.484167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 6′ 25″ N, 2° 29′ 3″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- 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, vol. 1: 265 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=IAQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA589&lpg=PA589&dq=butleigh+church+font&source=bl&ots=YU0c4LRPgk&sig=u9wX07aEBfabcQ5OyhJwDvZHqXg&hl=en&ei=NcH9SYDHKY-UMtOp0c8E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP7,M1] [accessed 3 May 2009]