Timberscombe

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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4

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B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4

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BU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church interior - south entrance

Scene Description: the font seen through the south entrance

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14666TIM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Petrock
Church Patron Saints: St. Petroc [aka Pedrog, Perreux, Petrock] [original dedication; later known as St. Michael & All Angels until the original dedication restored]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A396, 7 km SSW of Minehead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, inside the N door
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoil frieze." Noted in the National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=265377] [accessed 18 May 2009] as an octagonal font of the Perpendicular period. The octagonal basin has blank shields and floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils alternating on the sides; trefoiled arch-heads on the underbowl; the sides of the arches continue down the sides of the octagonal stem; moulded lower base; octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958