Bristol No. 12
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10660BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas the Martyr
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas (?)
Site Location: Bristol, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: On St Thomas Street
Additional Comments: recycled font: MUST USE: formerly a wooden font, later converted into a lectern -- disappeared font of the original church
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 528391 5700248
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.4527, -2.5914
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 27′ 9.72″ N, 2° 35′ 29.04″ W
REFERENCES
- Foyle, Andrew, Bristol, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 111
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 410