Lilstock / Lulestoch / Lulestock / Lytel-Stoke

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4447118] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: on a narrow band below the upper rim side, above a roll moulding

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design element - patterns - fluted - diagonal

Scene Description: a wide band all around the basin sides

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "There have been churches on the site since Saxon times but the existing tiny building is the chancel of a larger church which was built in 1532. One service per year is held there."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2008 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/3043314798] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the church has been redundant since 1980; the font was moved to Stogursey in 1981

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2008

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Lilstock Norman Font. Unusually, St Andrews has two fonts; this one, also believed to be Norman, was brought from the redundant church of St Andrews, Lilstock." [NB: the photograph was taken in 2015, the Lilstock font inside the church at Stogursey]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05440LIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [redundant since 1980]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Lilstock Rd, Stringstone, Bridgwater TA5 1SU , UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on Bridgewater Bay, 1 km NE of Kilton, about 5 km W of Hinkley Point, 13 km NE of Williton, 20 km NW of Bridgwater, 50 km WSW of Weston-super-Mare
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Williton and Freemanners (eastern)
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
There is an entry for Lilstock [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1644/lilstock/] [accessed 7 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bond (1908) describes and illustrates a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period in Lilstock; it appears to be a crude work: generally cylindrical in shape but the sides have been cut in except at the upper and lower ends; it is ornamented with a band of zig-zag below the upper rim, between two mouldings, and a wide band of diagonal fluted pattern all around its middle. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "Between 1100 and 1107 William de Falaise gave to the monks of Lonlay (Orne) the church of Stogursey and the tithes of two thirds of his demesne in Lilstock [...] A 12th-century font remained in the former chancel until its removal to Stogursey church in 1981." The entry for Stogursey in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) informs: "a Norman tub font with four faces, standing on reset medieval tiles in the north transept, and a second Norman font from Lilstock."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.197207, -3.194981
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 49.94″ N, 3° 11′ 41.93″ W
UTM: 30U 486376 5671773

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908