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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: partial view of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Beek, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 8 April 2006

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12019SWE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Catharine
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Langport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 12th - 15th century [re-tooled?], Medieval [altered]
Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham July 1888 accompanied by the following description: "Octagonal bowl, circular stem, base, & foot - pace. Circular bowl, no lead, vertical sides; flat at bottom, 10" deep, 2 1/2 margin; - the whole coming unjointed and nearly falling to pieces. Position, opposite S. porch, on N. side of Nave walk 1/2 way up. No cover." The octagonal mounted font at St. Catherine's appears now [2006] to have been repaired and re-tooled [NB: the original fabric of the church goes back to the 12th century, with a major renovation in the 15th century]. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Harvey Pridham [cf. FontNotes]]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and cross handle