Freshford nr. Bath / Firford
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswalds.com]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior
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view of church exterior - tower
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00710FRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Hill, Freshford, Bath BA2 7TX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1225 720347
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A36, 6-7 km SE of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath and Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Bath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of church and font
There is an entry for Freshford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7860/freshford/] [accessed 6 April 2023]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Lewis (1876) writes: "the font which is plain octagonal of the Decorated style." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7897160159] notes: "Parish Church of St. Peter. C15th, C17th, C18th and restored c.1858-59 […] C14th/C15th octagonal font." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with mostly plain sides, except for a moulding at the bottom; raised on an octagonal moulded stem, a square lower base and a rectangular plinth. Plain octagonal font cover. The basin shows a large insert of new stone and it as well as the rest of the font have undergone drastic re-tooling to the extent that it is difficult to discern now what the original surface was.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.34,
-2.303333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 20′ 24″ N,
2° 18′ 12″ W
UTM: 30U 548526 5687866
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lewis, Harold, The Chuch Rambler : a series of articles on the churches in the neighbourhood of Bath, London; Bath: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; William Lewis, The Herald Office, 1876
