Curry Mallett

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Results: 8 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a hexafoil - 8
BU01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8
CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
UB01: design element - patterns - tracery - varied
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14720CUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A378, 12-13 km SE of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side, by the S entrance
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photographs of these fonts
Font Notes:
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Described in Pevsner (1958): "The usual octagonal Perp[endicular] type." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with blank shields in hexafoil panels, the underbowl chamfer slightly concave and decoarted with a rosette on each side, a roll moulding at the bottom; raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with varied tracery on the sides; the small octagonal plinth appears modern. There is a large octagonal font (?) outside the entrance of the manor house [Mallet Court] at Curry Mallet, octagonal, moulded and decorated; probably 19th-century.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958