Combe Florey

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Font image
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

Font ID: 14673COM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] -- 15th century (late?) [basin only [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: original church 13thC; present church chiefly 15thC
Church Address: Combe Florey, Somerset, TA4 3JD, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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

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

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, p. 44 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=h-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100&lpg=RA1-PA100&dq=west+hatch+church+font&source=bl&ots=8DPeBrOd_W&sig=MBiQ5MYBqifsAD89-vQ_wGSHaKA&hl=en&ei=woMRSv6yH4jOMqKBnbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP7,M1] [accessed 18 May 2009]