Long Sutton nr. Somerton No. 2 / Sutone / Sutune
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - architectural - arch or window?
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14618SUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Long Sutton, Langport TA10 9HS, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 241554
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3165-A372 crossroads, 6 km SSW of Somerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Somerton
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this [Long] Sutton [variand spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4625/long-sutton/] [accessed 7 February 2018], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner (1958) mentions two fonts: "One in the churchyard, defaced. It resembles that at Ruishton, octagonal with bold buttress-like pieces in the diagonals and sculpture on the four uncovered faces. The other is in the church, Perp[endicular], octagonal, with a flat bowl. Two quatrefoils on each side." [NB: entry footnoted: "This is suggested to have been the base of the village cross."] Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with mouldings and quatrefoils, decorated underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal stem with trefoil arches or windows, moulded lower base. The wooden cover has a crown-like base on which an octagonal pyramid; painted and gilded; 17th century?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 517082 5653498
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.032778, -2.756389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 1′ 58″ N, 2° 45′ 23″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 251