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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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UB01: design element - architectural - window or niche - trefoiled - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15283DIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Saints
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km E of Wells, 4 km W of Shepton Mallet
Font Notes:
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Noted in the National Gazetteer of 1868 as an ornametal font. Described in the National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=268058] [accessed 10 September 2009]: "Octagonally Perpendicular font, a quatrefoil to each face." The quatrefoils on each side of the basin inscribe a blank shield; the underbowl is moulded, and there is a protruding moulding at the centre ring position; the tem sides have trefoiled windows and the lower base has a thick roll moulding ; there is a mini plinth, square with chamfered angles. The wooden cover is box-like and octagonal.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photographs of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Dinder/index.html [accessed 10 September 2009]]