Angersleigh

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2009 by Nick Chipchase [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1238388] [accessed 29 September 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael's Church, Angersleigh. The tower is C14; the remainder, C15, was restored heavily in the mid-C19. Crenellations to tower and nave"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2005 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1606243] [accessed 29 September 2020]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14702ANG

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Angersleigh, Taunton TA3 7SY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the M5, 6-7 km SW of Taunton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath and Wells

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font

Church Notes: church granted by William I to the Bishop of Winchester; later ceded to Taunton Priory; 14thC tower; re-built 15thC; restored 1855

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No entry found for Angersleigh in the Domesday survey. Jeboult (1873) notes: "The font is very ancient." Baptismal font consisting of a round cauldron-like basin decorated with a flat moulding around its middle, raised on a cylindrical pedestal base with roll mouldings at both ends, the lower one thicker and forming the top volume of the lower base, with spurs at the angles on the lower square volume; the spurs do not appear to be all the same, but it is difficult to tell because some appear broken/damaged. This is an uneven work, the basin is quite crude, yet the proportions of the base are classic and well rendered. The wooden cover is round and flain, with a long flat handle. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST1990618701] notes: "Parish church. Tower C14, rest C15 extensively restored c1855 when chapel added, chancel arch rebuilt, nave crenellated and church largely refenestrated, 1872 porch converted to vestry, early C20 refitted [...] Norman circular font with remains of cable moulding."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9621, -3.1419

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 43.56″ N, 3° 8′ 30.84″ W

UTM: 30U 490035 5645620

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

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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