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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2008 by Tony Ethridge

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14717ASH

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Vincent

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A359, just SE of Limington, 6 km NNW of Yeovil

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [basin only] [re-tooled?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in July 1888 accompanied by the following description: "Octagonal. Stands on a terra-cotta tile floor without a base or even a foot pace. Circular bowl inside, of basin shape, 8 1/2 inches deep, 4 1/2 margin; no cover. Position, near West wall." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain low-cut sides and a concave chamfer on the underbowl; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal. The font appears suspiciously sharp, which may be the result of some drastic re-tooling; the pedestal base probably a replacement since the time of Pridham's sketch. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Depth: 21.25 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Harvey Fridham [cf. FontNotes]]