Beercrocombe / Beer Crocombe / Bere
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Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Scene Description: the modern font, in the space beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14712BEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A358, 11-12 km SE of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with quatrefoil panels on the sides, and a graded underbowl chamfer; raised on a plain octagonal stem, and a moulded lower base. It probably dates to the late-Victorian rnovation of the church in 1897. The open-work cover may be of the same date. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 13th-century building, or of the later, 15th-century church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 502750 5647478
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]