Shepton Mallet / Shepton Mallett
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by Nick Bennett, 2007
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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)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Bennett, 2007
Image Source: Image courtesy & copyright © Nick Bennett, 2007 [www.mediaconcepts.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 March 2007)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07106SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A374-A37, 35 km S of Bristol
Additional Comments: disused, removed in 1837, replaced by Victorian font; restored by 1907?
Font Notes:
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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).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Nick Bennett, of www.mediaconcepts.co.uk, for the photographs of these two fonts.
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, p. 217
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 302
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51269] [accessed 28 February 2007]
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 6 April 2008]