East Quantoxhead / Cantocheheue / East Quantoxhed / Great Quantoxhead
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/4450574630] [accessed 28 March 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "East Quantoxhead church interior. The nave of the church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, with its splendid rood screen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Jones, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2007 by Bob Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/648350] [accessed 29 March 2018]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present font in this church; though much battered and looking older than its age, it is probably 19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ashley Dace, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2504859] [accessed 28 March 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15345QUA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: East Quantoxhead, Somerset TA5 1EJ, UK -- Tel.: 01278 732873
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, 20 km W of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton
Date: ca. 1259?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Medieval
There is an entry for [East] Quantoxhead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1343/east-quantoxhead/] [accessed 28 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "There was a church at East Quantoxhead by 1259 [...] The rectory was valued at £10 13s. 4d. in 1291 [...] An altar recently dedicated in 1329 [...] and the surviving tower arch suggest an early 14th-century date for the origin of the present building"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. There is no font mentioned in the English Heritage [Listing NGR: ST1364143656] entry for this church. The modern -19th-century?- font is illustrated in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-watson/3516613278/] [accessed 18 September 2009]; it is an octagonal basin with quatrefoils raised on an octagonal pedestal with panelled sides, and a moulded lower base. The wooden cover is round, with a ball handle; appears contemporary with the font. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.18507,
-3.23759
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 11′ 6.25″ N,
3° 14′ 15.32″ W
UTM: 30U 483395 5670433
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-03-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
