Shepton Mallet / Shepton Mallett
Image copyright © Nick Bennett, 2007
Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 March 2007)
Results: 3 records
R01:
design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by Nick Bennett, 2007
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: Image courtesy & copyright © Nick Bennett, 2007 [www.mediaconcepts.co.uk]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the Victorian font and cover in this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Bennett, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Nick Bennett, 2007
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 March 2007)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07106SHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A374-A37, 35 km S of Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Nick Bennett, of www.mediaconcepts.co.uk, for the photographs of these two fonts.
Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the pulpit and font, which are of stone, are much admired". Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "the original font was removed in 1837, and replaced by one of modern Gothic design". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Wade & Wade (1929) describe it simply as an "old font". [NB: there is a later, Victorian, font in this church, probably the one mentioned in Kelly above -- not listed separately in this Index]. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, moulded, with metal crossed handle and finial
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929
