Ubley
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Results: 5 records
BBL01: design element - motifs
Scene Description: large, leaf-like (?) at the corners
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Scene Description: forming the base
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LB02: design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: one at each angle of the base
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view of font
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01101UBL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cushion-capital font
Cognate Fonts: Other "cushion-capital" fonts
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: The Street, Ubley, Bristol BS40 6PJ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the northern side of the Mendip Hills, just off the A368, 20-25 km E of Weston-super-Mare
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of a type "which may be regarded as transitional in form between the unmounted and the mounted font, in that though they are mounted, the supports are still quite low". At Ubley, adds Bond (ibid.), "the lower bowl is discarded in favour of a molded base with the 'spur' ornament; the bowl itself takes the form of an undivided cushion capital." The base is described (ibid.) as of the "commonest" type, "two rolls separated by a side hollow", and the font is described as late Norman, i.e., probably late 12th-century. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 522531 5685615
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.321389, -2.676667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 17″ N, 2° 40′ 36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 45, 51, 151, 153 and ill. on p. 40
- Cahill, Mary, "A Baptismal Font at Wyanstown, Co Louth", vol. XX, no. 3, County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, 1983, pp. 237-239; p. 238