Banwell / Banwelle
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Image Source: photograph taken 26 May 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge of Somerset Villages [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/334274/photo28.html] [accessed 3 May 2009]
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: a band all around the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge of Somerset Villages [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/334274/photo28.html] [accessed 3 May 2009]
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design element - motifs - floral - lily
Scene Description: tall lillies reaching all the way down the bottom of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge of Somerset Villages [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/334274/photo28.html] [accessed 3 May 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05088BAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-carved in the 15th or 16th century, Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 18 Church Street, Banwell, North Somerset BS29 6EA
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 kms E of Weston-super-Mare
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Winterstoke
Additional Comments: Bond is suspicious of the mixing of old-style shape and later decoration. / altered font / re-carved font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Banwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST3959/banwell/] [accessed 20 October 2014], and, despite its size (86 households), it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Warner (1826) remarks: "The pulpit, also, and the font, of Banwell Church, (both ancient, and of stone,) are singularly beautiful […] the latter of a basin-form lavatory, and wooden cover, all richly patterned and finely executed." Described in Rutter (1829): "The ancient font is of large dimensions, and embossed with very roughly scluptured foliage and other devices". Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869) and in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period [NB: if this is the same font as the one illustrated in Bond, the dating in Cox & Harvey may be for the original object, which may have been recut at a later period]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font probably recut or mounted: "the bowl and the stem are of twelfth century type, whereas the quatrefoils of the rim are of late Gothic character, and resemble those round the base of the pulpit (c. 1500), while the carved lilies resemble those in the lily pot which forms part of the group of the Annunciation on the western face of the tower". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, but carved with quatrefoils and plants in the C15 or C16." The base is a short cylindrical pedestal with a moulding at the upper end, all raised on a thicker lower base ornamented with several mouldings. The Jacobean font cover is shaped like an octagonal pyramid with a lower short vertical parapet imitating crenellations and ornamented with spirals in circles, round arches and foliage motifs; it has a small finial figure or cross. Noted in Wade & Wade (1929): "the font (Norman) with unsusual carving on the bowl.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, and to Tim Marlow, for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 509524 5686299
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.3279, -2.8633
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 40.44″ N, 2° 51′ 47.88″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-17th century?
Material: wood?
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 95, 389, 291-298 and ill on p. 92
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 201
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 345 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA161,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 85
- 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. 139
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 2 March 208]
- Warner, Richard, Revd., An history of the Abbey of Glaston; and of the town of Glastonbury, Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell, 1826, p. xxix