North Curry
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Results: 4 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bown, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Dave Bown
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BU01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bown, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Dave Bown
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UB01: design element - architectural - niche - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bown, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Dave Bown
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bown, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Dave Bown
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14623CUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Pau;
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 12-13 km E of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dave Bown, of Discovering Somerset, for his photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with blank shileds inscribed in quatrefoils; the underbowl chamfer has trefoiled arches/windows; the octagonal stem has deeply-carved trefoiled niches over a moulded lower base. Raised on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is a gilded octagonal pyramid with a cross finial. [NB: church is ca. 1300, built on the site of an earlier Norman church; upgraded in the 15th century]. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]