Luxborough

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font on the north side of the south aisle, at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 November 2006 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14757LUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SSW of Dunster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, N end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=265357] [accessed 22 September 2009] notes a "C15 octagonal font" in this church. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin plain but for two mouldings, raised on an octagonal stem that appears plain. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]