Cameley

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop - 12
CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - 2
view of church exterior - west tower
view of church interior - nave - looking southwest
INFORMATION
FontID: 09228CAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 19 km SE of Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Pevsner (1958): "Square, Norman, with three scallops on the underside of each side." Baptismal font consisting of a square basin with scalloped lower sides, scallops that project toward the top of the round pedestal base forming thick ribs; at the top of the stem, forming the centre ring, is a rope moulding; the lower base is round and moulded on the upper level, square and plain on the lower. The whole stands on a quadrangulr plinth. The font cover, of the Jacobean design with eight scroll ribs around a central pivot, is reported to have been "made in 1634 for £1.12s. 4d" [source: www.westgallerychurches.com] [accessed November 2004]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1634 / 17th century
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958