Mudford
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - 3-petal
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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B02: design element - architectural - arcade (inverted) - blind - round arches
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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BBL01: design element - motifs - panel - quatrefoiled - 16
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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BU01: design element - motifs - tracery
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - 8
Scene Description: The arch-heads are part of the underbowl tracery [cf. Font notes].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14621MUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A359, just NNE of Yeovil
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with three-petal flowers that stem from upturned arches; below it there is a band of flatened quatrefoil motifs, two per side; the underbowl chamfer has tracery panels the bottom of which form the arch-heads for the octagonal stem sides; the lower base and plinth are octagonal and plain. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined