Drayton nr. Somerton
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2009 by Tony Ethridge
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the far end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2009 by Tony Ethridge
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2009 by Tony Ethridge
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2009 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15230DRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Catherine
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Somerton, in S Somerset
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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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: "Circular bowl & stem, square foot. Circular bowl, no lead, curved sides, following outside, flat bottom 8 3/4 deep, 2 1/8 margin; - position, on left entering by S. porch, (no aisles) on S. side of Nave. No cover." Noted in the National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=264336] [accessed 2 September 2009]: "Norman tub font". The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with mouldings at both ends, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base, a square lower base and a two-step plinth. Only the basin is original. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: not lined
Basin Depth: 22 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Harvey Pridham [cf. FontNotes]]