Puriton / Peritone
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nicholas Kaye, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2017 by Nicholas Kaye [www.flickr.com/photos/25326534@N05/37043688051] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2006 by P.R. Clarke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puriton-Church.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nicholas Kaye, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2017 by Nicholas Kaye [www.flickr.com/photos/25326534@N05/37043688051] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15386PUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Rye, Puriton, Bridgwater TA7 8BZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1278 683500
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M5-A39 crossroads, 6 km NNE of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Huntspill
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Puriton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST3241/puriton/] [accessed 2 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "There was a church by 1113 which was given by Robert de Chandos as part of the foundation grant to his priory at Goldcliff (Mon., now Gwent)"; the VCH entry does not mention a font in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST3202741719] reports a 15th-century font in it. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). [NB: there may have been an earlier font fom the original 12th-century building, but we have no information on it]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1706, -2.9735
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 14.16″ N, 2° 58′ 24.6″ W
UTM: 30U 501853 5668797
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: modern wooden font cover bears a donor's plaque -- why is the lower end of the cover octagonal when the basin interior is round?
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-05-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.