Enmore / Animere

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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Doorway, St Michael's Church, Enmore.The Norman doorway at St Michael's Church, Enmore, dated 1185, with its zig-zag decoration. Pevsner (South & West Somerset, 1958) describes this as "two zigzags ... one parallel with the wall, the other at right angles." At either side are the trumpet type capital".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2010 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1986954] [accessed 3 April 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15347ENM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located NW of Broomfield, WSW of Durleigh, 6 km W of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Andersfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Enmore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2335/enmore/] [accessed 3 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) note: "The earliest evidence for a church at Enmore is the late Norman south doorway […] The church of St. Michael, so dedicated by 1348 […] The font, possibly of the 13th century, replaced a Victorian font in 1937." The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=269275] [accessed 18 September 2009] notes: "Plain octagonal C13 font". [NB: Pevsner (1958) dates the south doorway to ca. 1185, but does not mention any font in this church; we have no information on the original font of the late-Norman church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.111111,
3.087222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 6′ 40″ N,
3° 5′ 14″ W
UTM: 30U 493894 5662185
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-09-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958