Hanham Abbots

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 06739HAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Now part of the SE suburbs of Bristol Kingswood
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font is good moderately plain Norman; it has a square block bowl upon a short cylindrical stem". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period [NB: C&H have the place simply as 'Hanham', but it is Hanham Abbots -- Hanham has its own church, Christ Church, but both the church and the font are early-Victorian and not listed separately in this Index]. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman; plain square scalloped bowl set directly on a circular moulded base, with spurs."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 295
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002