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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 28 August 2015 by Nick Chipchase [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4634875] [accessed 2 May 2018] INT + FONT digital photograph by David Ross & Brtitain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3956] [accessed 2 May 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

Scene Description: said to be 15thC but drastically re-cut

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view of font in context

Scene Description: on the north side, opposite the south entranceway, next to the box pews

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15291SUT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church [dedication unknown]

Church Location: Sutton Mallet, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 9AT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located between the A39 (NE) and the A372 (SW), 2-3 km W of Moorlinch, 8 km E of Brigwater

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Whitley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut?], Perpendicular [altered?]

Church Notes: redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust; vested in the Trust on 1 November 1987

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entery for Sutton [Mallet] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST3736/sutton-mallet/] [accessed 2 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. 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: "All circular, inside & out. Circular bowl, no lead, basin shape, 8 1/2 deep, 4 3/8 margin. Modern flat cover." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "Sutton was probably one of the chapelries attached to Moorlinch in 1291 [...] but its parochial chaplain was first mentioned in 1450 [...] The chapel, with no known dedication, comprises a polygonal chancel, a nave with south porch, all designed by Richard Carver, and an earlier west tower. It replaced a building demolished in 1827 and was opened in 1829. About 1785 the old building had been described as 'very mean' and 'very dirty . . . much fitter for a stable than a place of worship' [...] The present furnishings, apart from the reworked Perpendicular font and 17th-century altar rail, are contemporary". The VCH entry has an illustration of the church interior, looking east towards the altar, with a baptismal font in the foreground.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.128333, -2.897778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 42″ N, 2° 53′ 52″ W

UTM: 30U 507153 5664101

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Depth: 21.25 cm*

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-09-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.