Ashill

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - in a hexafoil - 4

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B02: symbol - shield - blank - in a hexafoil - 4

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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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UB01: design element - architectural - window or niche - 8

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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: 14703ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Ashill, Somerset, TA199LZ
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NW of Ilminster, 11 km S of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Stem with blank arches, bowl with shields, etc., in sexfoils." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin deeply carved with cusped hexafoil panels which include alternately Tudor roses and blank shileds; plain underbowl chamfer with lower moulding, the latter very worn and damaged; the octagonal stem has a trefoil niche or window on each side; moulded octagonal lower base; tiny square plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat with metal knob finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.95296, -2.96234
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 10.66″ N, 2° 57′ 44.42″ W
UTM: 30U 502645 5644595

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
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REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958