Combe Florey

Results: 2 records

design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2009 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1437144] [accessed 28 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 14673COM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Combe Florey, Somerset, TA4 3JD, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A358, 11 km NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [base only] -- 15th century (late?) [basin only [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: original church 13thC; present church chiefly 15thC
No entry found for Combe Florey in the Domesday survey. Jeboult (1873) notes: "The font is singular." The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=270274] [accessed 17 September 2009] records a "Late C15 octagonal font with trefoil decoration on C13 base". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0736, -3.2139
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 24.96″ N, 3° 12′ 50.04″ W
UTM: 30U 485014 5658031

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

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