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B01: design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed - trefoiled
Scene Description: One on each side of the square basin
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Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Paley (1844)
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the caps and bases of the colonnettes of the base
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Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Paley (1844)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 03442TIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Quericus [or Quiricus] and St. Julietta
Church Patron Saints: St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] and St. Julietta
Church Location: Church Ln, Clevedon BS21 6SD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1275 859210
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km E of Clevedon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S aisle, near the S doorway
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: The 19th-century font at Woolhope is said to have been designed based on this font
Font Notes:
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Described in Hutter (1829): "The font is very ancient, being a square stone cistern of ample dimensions, resting on four small round pillars, one at each angle, with a large one in the centre." Described in Paley (1844) as "plain, but rather unusual, Early English font. It consists of a square bowl [NB: it is actually rectangular, 75 x 70 cm], the angles of which are chamfered, and each side ornamented with a pointed trefoil arch". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as an Early English baptismal font "of a rather unusual character". Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports a font, without further details. Wade & Wade (1929) report a font in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Of c. 1300, square bowl with blank trefoiled pointed arch-heads, the stem a strong central shaft and four slimmer Purbeck shafts." The slender corner shafts have capitals and bases. [NB: the 19th-century font at Woolhope is said to have been designed based on this font, while the pulpit at Woolhope was designed after the font at Ewerby (Henry Woodyer, 2002: 52n)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.4394, -2.7814
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 26′ 21.84″ N, 2° 46′ 53.04″ W
UTM: 30U 515194 5698712
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Rim Thickness: 10 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 55 x 50 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Basin Total Height: 37.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 70 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)
REFERENCES
Henry Woodyer, Gentleman Architect, Reading: The University of Reading, 2002
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Rutter, John, Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset, and of its [...], Shaftesbury; London: Published by the Author; Longman, Rees & Co. [...], 1829
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929