Ubley
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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 church exterior - south view
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01101UBL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: The Street, Ubley, Bristol BS40 6PJ, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cushion-capital font
Cognate Fonts: Other "cushion-capital" fonts
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
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).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.321389, -2.676667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 19′ 17″ N, 2° 40′ 36″ W
UTM: 30U 522531 5685615
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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