Chesterblade / Chester Blade

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07075CHE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km S of the A361, SW of Frome, about 35 km S of Bristol

Font Notes: Click to view

Records of the PSAS Society meeting of Monday, 14th May 1883 [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_017/17_325_331.pdf] [accessed 9 September 2009] note the receipt of a number of donations to the Museum and Library of the Society, among which an etching of the "Chester Blade Church and Font, Somerset". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Wade & Wade (1929) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 11 March 2008]