Woolavington / Hunlauintone
Image copyright © Michael Day, 2018
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Day, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph by Michael Day [https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4390/23578139408_2df1708a4a_b.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal basin
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Image Source: digital photograph by Michael Day [https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4390/23578139408_2df1708a4a_b.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by Michael Day [https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4390/23578139408_2df1708a4a_b.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Parker, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2016 by Derek Parker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4869671] [accessed 2 May 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Day, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph by Michael Day [https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4390/23578139408_2df1708a4a_b.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15417WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church St, Woolavington, Bridgwater TA7 8DP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1278 686440
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3141, 6 km NNE of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the N side, by the blocked Norman entrance of the N side
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Woolavington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST3441/woolavington/] [accessed 2 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1958) writes: "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], of a usual type." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "The church may have been given by Robert de Chandos in 1113 as part of the foundation grant to his priory at Goldcliff (Mon., later Gwent) […] and a rector was recorded in the late 12th century [… The font is […] 15th-century." The National Monuments Record [www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=269512] [accessed 1 October 2009] notes: "Octagonal C15 font with quatrefoils". [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1704, -2.9341
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 13.44″ N, 2° 56′ 2.76″ W
UTM: 30U 504607 5668776
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: octagonal with three flat levels; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-10-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958