Cheddar / Ceder

Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2011)
Results: 11 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - columns with capitals and bases - 8
view of basin - upper view
view of basin and cover - detail
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of cover
view of font
view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font seen from beneath the tower, looking east towards the altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2011)
view of font and cover in context - west side
INFORMATION
FontID: 07103CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Street, Cheddar, Somerset, BS273RF
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A371, 15 km SE of Weston-super-Mare
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Winterstoke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-268768-church-of-st-andrew-cheddar] [accessed 16 October 2011] notes: "Early
C14 font with a C17 cover." The octagonal basin is decorated with eight large trefoiled arches on columns with capitals an bases on the sides; it appears to have been re-cut and much restored, with entire sections being made of new-stone insert repairs; the cylindrical pedestal base and the octagonal moulded lower base appear modern; the octagonal plinth is modern as well. The oak cover, probably of 17th-century date, consists of an octagonal box base with carved sides, with eight vertical scroll ribs meeting at a ball and fleuron finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.2737,
-2.7761
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 16′ 25.32″ N,
2° 46′ 33.96″ W
UTM: 30U 515618 5680286
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907