North Curry

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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8

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BU01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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UB01: design element - architectural - niche - trefoiled - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph by Dave Bown
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14623CUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Pau;
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 12-13 km E of Taunton
Additional Comments: req'd photo from Tony Ethridge
Font Notes:
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).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dave Bown, of Discovering Somerset, for his photograph of this font.

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]