Backwell / Bacoile

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12482BAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [restored], Norman [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Backwell
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Ln, Backwell, Bristol BS48 3JJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1275 463469
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A370, just SE of Nelsea, 12 km SW of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Hartcliffe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / restored font
Font Notes:
Described in Rutter (1829): "The font is circular, and of the Norman era." Noted in the Proceedings (1881) of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1882): "One feature of the Norman church not in situ was the much mutilated remains of the old Norman font, now placed under the tower. Mr. Street, the architect, has designed an entirely new font." Tyrrell-Green (1928) gives a list of fonts in which a rope moulding constitutes "the sole adornment": Bierton (Bucks.), Egloskerry (Cornwall), Launcells Cornwall), Tremaine (Cornwall), Wick (Glam), Tresmere (Cornwall), Notgrove (Gloucs.), Folkton (NYorks.), Backwell (Somerset), Congresbury (Somerset). Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman; circular with a cable-moulding." The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=33417] [accessed 9 September 2009] notes: "Font; C12, restored 1907, circular bowl with cable moulding, circular stem with foliate moulding on base." [NB: the base and its decoration may be the result of the 1907 restoration].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 84
  • Rutter, John, Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset, and of its [...], Shaftesbury; London: Published by the Author; Longman, Rees & Co. [...], 1829, p. 21
  • Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Proceedings [1881-1882] of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Taunton: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1882-1883, pt. I: 49
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79