Bath No. 1 / Bade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2016 by John Wilkes
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2015 by Colin Smith
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Scene Description: Victorian font
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Scene Description: Victorian font
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Scene Description: Victorian font
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Scene Description: Victorian font
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Scene Description: 1710
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Scene Description: the Victorian font in the abbey
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Scene Description: the 18th-century font in the Abbey
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Scene Description: Victorian font in the Abbey
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Scene Description: 1710
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Scene Description: 1710
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Scene Description: 1710
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Scene Description: 1710
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Scene Description: 1710
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Scene Description: 1710
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Scene Description: with Morris dancers in the foreground
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Scene Description: the Victorian font and cover
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
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Scene Description: on the Victorian font, probably contemporary with it
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Scene Description: descriptive label accompanying the font cover at the Abbey Museum [cf. Font notes]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011
Image Source: 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/b/005add000015546u00099000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]
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Scene Description: the cover is early 17th-century [cf. Font notes]; the font itself is 18th-century, not the Perpendicular one reported in Cox & Harvey [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pitkin Pictorials, 1988
Image Source: digitised image from printed guide
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07111BAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Date Visited: 2007-05-05
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Abbey Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: Benedictine abbey -- 15th-century rebuilding -- 17th century nave -- 19th-century restoration -- magnificent building
Church Address: Bath BA1 1LT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1225 422462
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Bristol, to the SE
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Bath [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / missing font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bath [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey, but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. There is a 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of a font in this church, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15546 - Item number: f. 99]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Wilton-Smith (1988) notes and illustrates both font and cover, but the font is not the one listed in Cox & Harvey above: "The ancient octagonal wooden font cover, surmounted by three little figures of children, was the gift of Thomas Bellot in 1604. The stone font is dated about 1710." The font illustrated in Wilton-Smith (ibid.) is chalice-shaped and certainly not Perpendicular; it bears an inscription around its basin with the date 1710; it is located in St. Alphege chapel, on the north-east corner of the nave, to the left of the altar. Pevsner (1958) writes of two fonts: one, of 1710, located at the east end of the north aisle, a "moulded polygonal bowl with band of inscription; the unedrside deeply and baroquely fluted". The other font noted in Pevsner (ibid.) is "an oak font of c. 1770 has recently been re-assembled." Pevsner (ibid.) also mentions a font cover: "Polygonal, like a spire; given by Thomas Bellot in 1604." The old font cover is an octagonal pyramid, the arrises of the eight angles with curled cusps, the finial a cluster of standing figures as indicated above [NB: the old cover is now -May 2007- in the Abbey Museum]. A later font, probably 19th-century Victorian, is located at the south-west corner of the nave [no separate entry in this Index on account of its late date -- cf. Images area]. [NB: we have no further information on the earlier font of this church -- we have information on other medieval churches in Bath: St. Michael, on Broad Street, replaced by the present 19th-century building; St. Mary Magdalen, Holloway, the chapel of a late 15th-century hospital; St. Thomas a Becket, on Church Street, in Widcombe; of those we only know of a font in the latter, and it is an 18th-century font not listed in this Index on account of its late date].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of the fonts now in this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 544630 5692446
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.3815, -2.3587
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 22′ 53.4″ N, 2° 21′ 31.32″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1604 / 17th century (early)
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 102-103
- Wilton-Smith, Jane, City of Bath: the Roman city of Aquae Sulis [a Pitkin guide], London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1988, p. 8