Doulting

Results: 2 records

BU01: angel - demi-figure

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

UB01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 07116DOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Aldhelm
Church Patron Saints: St. Aldhelm [aka Aldelme]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A361, just E of Shepton Mallet
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side, by the S entrance
Century and Period: 15th century [re-tooled], Perpendicular [altered?]
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with panelled stem and a bowl on a row of demi-figures of angels." Described and illustrated in ChurchCrawler [http://www.flickr.com/photos/22413548@N00/2500549582/] [accessed 10 September 2009]: "The font too is retooled and improved but is C15 with panelled stem and demi-figures of angels around the base of the bowl."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958