Rodney Stoke
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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BBU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: at either end of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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LID01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: all around the lower vertical sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05535ROD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only?], Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in the centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A371, 8 km WNW of Wells, 30-35 km SSW of Bristol
Additional Comments: altered font? later base?
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the late Mr. Rickman considered the date of the stone font to be about 1220" [NB: Lewis' reference must be to one of the early editions of Thomas Rickman's 'An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture...', the first of which appeared in 1817. Rickman was born in 1776 and died in 1841]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908), though mostly in relation to the font cover. Wade & Wade (1929) report an "ancient font (late Norm[an]), with its cover". Pevsner (1958) notes the cover but not the font. The font itself is a hemispherical basin with twisted-rib pattern ornamentation around the basin sides, topped by a band or round arch-heads; the base is and octagonal pedestal with top and bottom mouldings, and appears later than the basin. The font cover is identified as Jacobean, of the pointed-cone type; the lower "crown" is octagonal with short vertical panels ornamented with foliage motifs; the poited part is really a pyramid, rather than a cone, with raised arrises and plant motifs on the panels; there is a pointed motif as finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photographs of this site
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 289, 298 and ill. on p. 310
- 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
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51308] [accessed 8 March 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 252
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 6 April 2008]