Long Sutton nr. Somerton No. 2 / Sutone / Sutune

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Results: 7 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
design element - architectural - arch or window?
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
INFORMATION
FontID: 14618SUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Long Sutton, Langport TA10 9HS, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 241554
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
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?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.032778, -2.756389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 58″ N, 2° 45′ 23″ W
UTM: 30U 517082 5653498
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