Huish Champflower / Hiwis
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
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view of font - upper view - north side
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view of font - upper view - south side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14675HUI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Huish Champflower, Taunton TA4 2EY, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3188, just SE of the Clatworthy Reservoir, 4 km NW of Wiveliscombe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton and Freemanors (eastern)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N Aisle, W end
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Jeboult (1873) writes: "The font is apparently very old." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "There was a chaplain at Huish Champflower by 1187, [...] and a church is mentioned in 1226"; there is no mention of a font or stoup in the VCH entry. The entry for this church in Images of England [IoE Number: 429522] reports: "Circular Norman font with ribbed C17 pointed cover". The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The only Romanesque feature is the font [...] The font stands at the W end of the N aisle, with plenty of space around it today. It consists of a tub-shaped bowl with a heavy roll at the bottom, on a chamfered drum base which stands on a small and battered square plinth. The tapered bowl is without decoration but its simplicity is quite handsome, the reasonably fine-grained stone being a beautiful grey-yellow. (Unfortunately, its appearance is rather spoilt by an undulating stripe of mortar running round the whole circumference about ¼ way down from the top.) The lead lining comes up and part way across the rim. There is evidence of a former lock-fitting. The inner sides taper into a dished bottom [...] The font is not mentioned in Pevsner (1958), but in Orbach’s revision it is described as 12thc, and as ‘a narrow Ham stone tub tapered to a base roll moulding’."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.0543,
-3.358
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 3′ 15.48″ N,
3° 21′ 28.8″ W
UTM: 30U 474909 5655924
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 58 cm*
Basin Depth: 21 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47.5 cm*
Height of Base: 28.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 91 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-03-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-03-06 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.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
