Kenn nr. Clevedon

INFORMATION

FontID: 06035KEN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located just SE of Clevedon, right across the Mouth of the Severn from Cardiff

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928