Whitelackington / White Lackington
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 May 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 May 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14685WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of Ilminster
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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A 'Somerset Historic Environment Record (No. 53358 September 1984) reports: "A stone base indicated an earlier position of the font, now in the north transept". The font appears octagonal with plain sides, but there is a moulding at the bottom of the underbowl, where it meets the octagonal stem; this, and the lower base, which is square, are both plain but for four spurs at the corners of the lower base. The font is probably medieval but appears to have been re-cut. The wooden cover has four vertical scrolls on a flat platform, in the manner of Jacobean covers. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]