Brompton Ralph / Burnetone
Results: 7 records
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Kelly, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5483663] [accessed 5 March 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2013 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3393105] [accessed 5 March 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Exmoorian, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Exmoorian [www.exmoorian.co.uk/church-st-mary.htm] [accessed 5 March 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the church has a nave and a north aisle; the font is at the west end of the nave, by the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Exmoorian, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Exmoorian [www.exmoorian.co.uk/church-st-mary.htm] [accessed 5 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: permission requested (e-mail of 5 March 2018)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14671BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin St. Mary [formerly Church of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [formerly The Assumption of St. Mary]
Church Address: Brompton Ralph, Taunton TA4 2RY, UK -- Tel.: +44 1984 624716
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3188, 5 km N of Wiveliscombe, 16 km NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton and Freemanners (eastern) -- Hundred of Williton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1291 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Brompton [Ralph] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0832/brompton-ralph/] [accessed 5 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Jeboult (1873) reports that the old church "was nearly rebuilt in A.D. 1738. The font is small." The font is described in Pevsner (1958): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with flower and leaf motifs, a quatrefoil, and also a chalice and two flagons." The entry for this church in Historic Enghland [Listing NGR: ST0850432347] reports: "Octagonal font with carved panels of decoration on bowl and one panel begun at base of bowl, said to be C16; C17 flat ribbed cover." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "The church at Brompton Ralph, a rectory, was established by 1291 [...] 16th-century font with a carving of the green man and a 17th-century cover".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 478454 5659111
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0831, -3.3076
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 4′ 59.16″ N, 3° 18′ 27.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with carved upper side; metal finial
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873, p. 27
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 101