Pylle

INFORMATION

FontID: 08795PYL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St Thomas a Becket
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just off (W) the A37, about 8 km WSW of Shepton Mallet
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Described in the National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=267649] [accessed 25 September 2009]: "C11 tub font with chevron banding." A holy-water stoup of the Perpendicular period in this church is noted and illustrated in Parker (1850), who mentions that "the laeden basin remains", probably referring to an insert to hold the water within the stone niche. In Cox & Harvey (1907), after Parker. The stoup is wall-mounted and has a moulded frame around a pointed-arch niche containing the small stoup. Pevsner (1958) mentions neither.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [NB: the stoup serves as the base for a lead basin, not a lid proper]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850