Bath No. 1 / Bade

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Scene Description: descriptive label accompanying the font cover at the Abbey Museum [cf. Font notes]

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view of basin

Scene Description: 1710

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: 1710

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: 1710

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: 1710

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: 1710

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: 1710

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: with Morris dancers in the foreground

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view of church exterior - west façade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006

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view of church interior - nave

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2016 by John Wilkes

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view of font

Scene Description: Victorian font in the Abbey

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view of font

Scene Description: the 18th-century font in the Abbey

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view of font

Scene Description: the Victorian font in the abbey

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view of font

Scene Description: 1710

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view of font

Scene Description: Victorian font

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view of font

Scene Description: Victorian font

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view of font

Scene Description: Victorian font

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view of font

Scene Description: Victorian font

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view of font

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view of font

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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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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

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]

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Image Source: digitised image from printed guide

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the Victorian font and cover

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view of font cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes and LidInformation]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes and LidInformation]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: on the Victorian font, probably contemporary with it

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view of font cover

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view of font cover - finial

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view of font cover - finial

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07111BAT
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Bath BA1 1LT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1225 422462
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Bristol, to the SE
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Bath [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of the fonts now in this church.
Church Notes: Benedictine abbey -- 15th-century rebuilding -- 17th century nave -- 19th-century restoration -- magnificent building
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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.3815, -2.3587
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 22′ 53.4″ N, 2° 21′ 31.32″ W
UTM: 30U 544630 5692446

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wilton-Smith, Jane, City of Bath: the Roman city of Aquae Sulis [a Pitkin guide], London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1988