Sampford Brett / Sanford

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design element - architectural - arch or window - 8

Scene Description: it is suggested that this lower base was tha basin of an earlier font [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15395SAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Sampford Brett, TA4 4LG Somerset, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A358 [aka Tower Hill], S of Watchet and Williton, 24 km NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [base only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for Sampford [Brett] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0840/sampford-brett/] [accessed 2 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in the National Monuments Record [Listing NGR: ST0894840199] reports: "Octagonal font with trefoil headed cusping, base may be an inverted medieval bowl". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "The church was mentioned in 1239 [...] The church of ST. GEORGE was probably so dedicated by 1306 when Adam Brett was granted a fair at the feast of St. George [...] At its restoration the church was described as being of 'a very early character, Anglo-Norman' with lancet windows in the south wall of the chancel. [...] The north transept dates from c. 1300, and the tower is probably of the 15th century. Between 1835 and 1843 the chancel, vestry, and west end of the nave were completely rebuilt and the west porch and organ chamber added [...] The base of the font may be a medieval bowl inverted."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1538, -3.3033
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 13.68″ N, 3° 18′ 11.88″ W
UTM: 30U 478788 5666972

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, beret-shaped; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-04-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.