Martock / Mertoch
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Results: 6 records
design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: the sides of which continue down the angles of the stem
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com/Martock Church Somerset - All Saints/index.htm] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com/Martock Church Somerset - All Saints/index.htm] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "All Saints' Church, Martock. View from the south-east of this stupendous church, both inside and out [...] The Early English chancel windows date from the 13th Century; the Perpendicular aisles were added in the 16th Century."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180214005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' Church, Martock. View from the south-east of this stupendous church, both inside and out [...] The Early English chancel windows date from the 13th Century; the Perpendicular aisles were added in the 16th Century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Harrison, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2016 by Bill Harrison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5599703] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5363803] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugene Birchall, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2016 by Eugene Birchall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4850200] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cornish Churches Web Site, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com/Martock Church Somerset - All Saints/index.htm] [accessed 14 February 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15377MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church St, Martock TA12 6JL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1935 826113
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3165 [aka Church Rd], 6 km WSW of Ilchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Martock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, behind the last column of the arcade that divides the centre aisle from the S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ian, of the Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com], for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Martock [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4619/martock/] [accessed 14 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "Martock church, in the centre of a large pre-Conquest estate, was probably a minster of royal foundation. It was first mentioned in 1156 when it was confirmed as a possession of the abbey of Mont St. Michel (Manche) [...] The mid-13th-century east wall of the chancel is the earliest surviving feature in the [present] building although it may represent the lengthening of an earlier chancel" [no font mentioned in the VCH entry]. The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=422626] [accessed 22 September 2009] notes: "C15 octagonal font with 2 cusped panels [on] each face of bowl, with panelled underbowl and shaft: nicely detailed". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The lower base and plinth are modern replacements.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.969444, -2.768889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 58′ 10″ N, 2° 46′ 8″ W
UTM: 30U 516228 5646452
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-02-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.