Kingston Seymour
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B01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 20
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 August 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 August 2008 by Tony Ethridge
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 August 2008 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06135KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Castlemartin, Clovelly, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the E side of the Mouth of the Severn, about 8 km up the M5 from Weston-super-Mare, 25 km SW of Bristol
Font Notes:
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Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). Noted in Thurlby (2006). The font consists of a square (inside and out) basin shaped like a scalloped capital mounted on a circular stem; the sides of the basin have an blind arcade of five round arch-heads without supports on each side; there is a roll moulding at the bottom of the underbowl, where it meets the plain cylindrical stem; circular lower base, also plain [NB: the upper corners of the basin may have had some kind of motif on them, but they are now worn or broken off]. The wooden cover is square and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; Victorian?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethirdge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 187, 280
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 34