Priston / Prisctone
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coat of arms - Long family
Scene Description: Together with W. Long's initials - a/p identification in Cox & Harvey
coat of arms - Monastery of Bath?
!["the keys and the sword crossed" [cf. FontNotes] -- seen here on the left panel](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191106010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "the keys and the sword crossed" [cf. FontNotes] -- seen here on the left panel
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a square
Scene Description: seen here on the right panel; it appears blank [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: at the bottom of the stem
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: around the sides of the square lower base
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inscription
Scene Description: "W. Long"; probably the name of the donor
symbol - fetterlock
Scene Description: "the fetterlock, the badge of the Longs" [cf. FontNotes] -- seen here on the central panel
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the south doorway in a very odd style although the columns and capitals appear to be Norman. The door is allegedly Norman. Note empty niche above."
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "Norman 12th Century Nave, Perpendicular 15th Century chancel, Georgian 18th Century (1750's) central tower. Victorian restoration 1859-61 of nave and tower in neo-Norman style and chancel restored 1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Pictured is the south and east elevations with chancel foremost."
MOD FONT digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29493401627] [accessed 6 November 2019] CC-BY-2.0 Source caption: "Pictured is the rather strange Victorian font in neo-Norman style."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191106005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman 12th Century Nave, Perpendicular 15th Century chancel, Georgian 18th Century (1750's) central tower. Victorian restoration 1859-61 of nave and tower in neo-Norman style and chancel restored 1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Pictured is the south and east elevations with chancel foremost."
MOD FONT digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29493401627] [accessed 6 November 2019] CC-BY-2.0 Source caption: "Pictured is the rather strange Victorian font in neo-Norman style."
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured are the Victorian neo-Norman tower/chancel arches although incorporating pieces and fragments of original 12th Century arches found in wall when the church was being restored."
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view of church interior - south entrance
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pictured is the allegedly Norman nail & plank door with fishtail bands, elaborate hinges and a huge timber lock."
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "the rather strange Victorian font in neo-Norman style."
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Perpendicular 14th Century octagonal font."
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01184PRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Luke and St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Luke & St. Andrew
Church Location: 8 Summerlea, Priston Village, Bath BA2 9EF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1315, E of the A39, 6-7 km WSW of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Keynsham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Priston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST6960/priston/] [accessed 6 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis (1876) mentions the "mark of the fetterlock" on the font at Priston and writes: "The octagonal font of Perpendicular date was the gift of a member of the Long family, and it bears six shields which are interesting in their bearing upon the heraldic puzzle which the tomb in the church of S. James, South Wraxall, presents. On each of the faces of this font is a shield. On one of there is the letter W and on another the four letters of the word Long are arranged. On the other shields are the arms of the monastery of Bath -- the keys and the sword crossed, the badge of the Longs -- the fetterlock, and several coats including the lion rampant and the crosses paté, or whatever they are, about whose interpretation there is dispute." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic font of the Perpendicular period that "bears on two of the bowl panels 'W. Long'; the arms of Long also appear on the font, of which he was clearly the donor." Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with arms and emblems." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST6929160424] notes: "Parish Church. C12 origins, probable C14 phase, tower rebuilt 1750s, major restoration, largely neo-Norman 1861 [...] octagonal, Perpendicular font, cusped panels to shafts, heraldry above". [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.343333, -2.438611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 20′ 36″ N, 2° 26′ 19″ W
UTM: 30U 539101 5688156
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: On two panels of the bowl
Inscription Text: "W. Long"
Inscription Source: Cox (1907: 183)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958