Bristol No. 12
INFORMATION
FontID: 10660BRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas the Martyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas (?)
Country Name: England
Location: Bristol, South West
Directions to Site: On St Thomas Street
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Pevsner (1958) writes: "Font. Converted into a lectern. Wood, on a Greek-cross plan. Pillar-like stem, shallow fluted bowl." Foyle (2004) notes a "wooden lectern converted from a font". The About Bristol web site [http://www.about-bristol.co.uk/chu-14.asp] [accessed 16 September 2009] mentions several additions made during the 1879 renovation of the church, among which, "a font of mahogany". [NB: the tower of the 15th-century church remains, but we have no infromation on the fonts of that church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.4527,
-2.5914
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 27′ 9.72″ N,
2° 35′ 29.04″ W
UTM: 30U 528391 5700248
REFERENCES
Foyle, Andrew, Bristol, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958