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design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed - trefoiled
Scene Description: One on each side of the square basin
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Paley (1844)
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the caps and bases of the colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Paley (1844)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03442TIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: The 19th-century font at Woolhope is said to have been designed based on this font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Quericus [or Quiricus] and St. Julietta
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S aisle, near the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] and St. Julitta
Church Address: Church Ln, Clevedon BS21 6SD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1275 859210
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km E of Clevedon
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. The stone type of the four outer support columns are otherwise identified in Donovan & Reid (1962-1963): "TICKENHAM. There are Blue Lias shafts to the outer doorway of the south porch which appears to be well developed work of the 13th century. The four shafts to the font c. 1300 are also of this stone." [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)]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for the Donovan & Reid reference identifying the stone type of the base columns
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 515194 5698712
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.4394, -2.7814
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 26′ 21.84″ N, 2° 46′ 53.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
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, p. 52n
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 216, 217
- Donovan, D.T., "The Stone Insets of Some Somerset Churches", 107, SANHS Proceedings, 1962-1963, pp. 60-71; p. 69
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 341
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, unpaged
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 270
- 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, p. 233
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 6 April 2008]