Watchet / Wacet
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angel - cherub - head - 8
Scene Description: at the corners of the underbowl, with wings spread on the sides
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design element - architectural - arch or window - round - two-up-two-down
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design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8
Scene Description: on rthe angles of the stem
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2502359] [accessed 2 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2008 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/2878522545] [accessed 2 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "View towards chancel in east; to left is the north aisle Wyndham Chapel, containing monuments to that family".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2011 by "various" [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StDecumansChurchWatchet.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2018]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: one is left with the impression that the panels of the basin were carved originally, and later removed
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15410WAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Decuman
Church Patron Saints: St. Decuman [aka Decman, Decumanus, Degumanus, Degumen, Degyman, Tenen]
Church Location: Brendon Road, Watchet, Somerset TA230HU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3191, N of Williton, 14 km E of Minehead, 24 NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Watchet [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0743/watchet/] [accessed 28 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907: 217) note a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with angel-busts against the underside of the bowl." The entry for the parish of St. Decumans, including Watchet and Williton, in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "The church of ST. DECUMAN, so dedicated by 1189, [...] stands in an isolated position above Watchet [...] The only part of the church to have survived rebuilding in the 15th or early 16th century is the chancel, which is unusually wide and long and dates from the later 13th century. The sequence of the building of the rest of the church is uncertain [...] The late medieval octagonal font has angel-bust supports." [cf. Index entry for St. Decumans for a possible font in the Celtic church there].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1796, -3.3302
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 46.56″ N, 3° 19′ 48.72″ W
UTM: 30U 476920 5669849
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-04-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958