Clevedon
INFORMATION
FontID: 06034CLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A370, SW of Bristol, NE from Bristol airport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in the Proceedings (1881) of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1882): "The font was very plain, and there was little from which to judge its date, but he [Mr. B. E. Ferrey, a member of the Society] would take it to be of the Decorated period." Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in September 1887 accompanied by the following description: "Octagonal bowl outside, circular stem, and hexagonal base. Circular bowl inside, lead lined, vertical sides, 4 3/4 margin, 10" deep. The font is provided with an unusually high and elaborately carved (open traceried) cover, with original lead weight & pulley; the weight being of lead in the form of a fine 5 petalled flower, Perpendicular: it retains its old coloring. Position, against E side of W. Respond of S. Nave arcade." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. No mention of any font in Pevsner (1958).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Harvey Pridham [cf. FontNotes]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Proceedings [1881-1882] of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Taunton: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1882-1883
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928