Brompton Ralph / Burnetone

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

symbol - chalice

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

symbol - flagon - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southeast view

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 church exterior - southwest view

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 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

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)

view of font and cover in context

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

FontID: 14671BRO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin St. Mary [formerly Church of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [formerly The Assumption of St. Mary]

Church Location: Brompton Ralph, Taunton TA4 2RY, UK -- Tel.: +44 1984 624716

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

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]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0831, -3.3076

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 59.16″ N, 3° 18′ 27.36″ W

UTM: 30U 478454 5659111

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-. Accessed: 2018-03-05 00:00:00. 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

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