Timberscombe

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4
B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 4
BU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of church interior - south entrance
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
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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