Shapwick nr. Glastonbury / Sapeswich

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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: this font is either a re-cut of the late-medieval one, or a Victorian replacement [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2022 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 September 2022)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2022 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 September 2022)

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the bell-ringing ropes are visible east of the arch, indicating that the bell tower is mounted centrally in this church -- the font in the foreground is either a re-cut of the late-medieval one, or a Victorian replacement [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 January 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5251802] [accessed 2 May 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: this font is either a re-cut of the late-medieval one, or a Victorian replacement [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 January 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5251802] [accessed 2 May 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: this font is either a re-cut of the late-medieval one, or a Victorian replacement [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2022 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 September 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 15396SHA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Rd, Shapwick, Bridgwater TA7 9NE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 210260

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, 11 km W of Glastonbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Whitley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century / 19th century, Medieval? / Victorian?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font

Church Notes: the VCH entry [cf. FontNotes] informs on the several changes to the dedication of this church; in 1541 it took its present dedication to St. Mary

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Shapwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4138/shapwick/] [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: "The church, noted in the spurious charter of King Edgar of 971, [...] is first certainly mentioned in 1168, when it was considered one of the seven churches attached to Glastonbury abbey [...] The earliest church on the abandoned site to the east of the present village was of a single cell, to which a buttressed crossing tower and a chancel were added further east. It was replaced in 1331 by the present church, evidently a deliberate copy of the old, and by then obsolete, layout [...] Two piscinae and the font survive from the original building". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST4177438244] reports a "C14/C15 style font" in it. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958) [NB: unless it has been re-cut, the present font may be from the mid-19th century restoration of this church by George Gilbert Scott]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1405, -2.8337

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 25.8″ N, 2° 50′ 1.32″ W

UTM: 30U 511634 5665462

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 and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-05-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.