Uphill

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: re-cut in the 15th century? [cf. Font notes]

BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

BU02: design element - motifs - crocket

INFORMATION

FontID: 07110UPH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [new church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A370, at the N end of Bridgwater Bay, 1-2 km S of Weston-super-Mare
Font Location in Church: Reported inside the ruined church, in a niche, W end of the nave, in September 1849. The font was moved to the new church upon its opening
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [re-cut?], Medieval [altered]
Described unenthusiastically in Warre (1851) as "a tolerable font now placed in a nich at the west end" [NB:at the time of Warre's reading of his paper to the Somerset Archæological and Natural History Society on 27 September 1849, the church was in ruins]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Pevsner (1958) reports the font in the new church of 1844: "Font. Square and apparently of two dates, the underside with upright leaves and crcokets C13, the foliage of the bowl recut in the C15."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Warre, F., "Uphill Old Church", I (1851), Proceedings of the Somerset Archæological and Natural History Society, 1851, pp. 1-11 [i.e., 87-97]; r["References"]