Chaffcombe / Caffcome
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - north view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Michael and All Angels, Chaffcombe. Plenty of C15 work still in evidence in this church in a charming village."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Harper, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2006 by Derek Herper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/245016] [accessed 14 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2007 by Lewbat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chaffcombe_church.JPG] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14714CHA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Chaffcombe, Chard TA20 4AP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1460 239121
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A358, 3 km NE of Chard, SE of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of South Petherton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle/nave
Date: ca. 1175?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
There is an entry for this Chaffcombe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST3510/chaffcombe/] [accessed 14 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "A rector of Chaffcombe occurs c. 1187 [...] The body of the church was rebuilt to the designs of J. M. Allen in 1858, the north vestry added in 1877, and the tower largely reconstructed in 1882. [...] The nave and chancel of the old church were probably 14th century or earlier [...] The new church may have followed the plan of its predecessor but the features were not copied and are now in a plain 15th-century style"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The only Romanesque sculpture is the plain font" and provides illustrations of the font. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated only with a roll moulding, raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a plain splaying lower base, also circular; the short quadrangula rplinth may be modern. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle. The font may date from the original late-12th century church in this place.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.8875,
-2.9198
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 53′ 15″ N,
2° 55′ 11.28″ W
UTM: 30U 505641 5637318
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 34 cm
Height of Base: 36 + 21 cm*
Height of Central Column: 36 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-02-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
