Glastonbury No. 2 / Glastingbere

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design element - motifs - floral - in a cusped panel - 4

Scene Description: alternating with blank shileds inscribed in cusped panels -- the modern font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel -

Scene Description: alternating with floral motifs inscribed in cusped panels -- the modern font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 28 March 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 April 2018 by Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glastonbury._St_John_the_Baptist._2.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2018 by Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glastonbury._St_John_the_Baptist._Interior_3.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 28 March 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [http://www.stjohns-glastonbury.org.uk/gallery.php?&id=106836&sid=&frompage=%2Fbuilding.php%3F%26dx%3D3%26ob%3D3%26rpn%3Dbuilding [accessed 9 November 2007]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 28 March 2022 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 August 2022)

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 28 March 2022 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 August 2022)

view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph 28 March 2022 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 August 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13220GAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: High St, Glastonbury BA6 9DR, UK -- Tel.: +44 1458 830060

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A367, 2 km across the river from Street, N of Ilchester, E of Bridgwater, 38 km S of Bristol

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Glastonbury

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [fragment?], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: designed by Gilbert Scott

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Gowland, of www.stjohns-glastonbury.org.uk, to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages and to Coin Smirh for their photographs of this font.

Church Notes: present churc replaced an older one said to go back to the 10thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Glastonbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5038/glastonbury/] [accessed 7 May 2018]; the entry does not mention cleric or church in it. Phelps (1836) describes the [presumably] medieval font, perhaps of the same Gothic period as the church itself: "The font is octagonal and sculptured". [NB: that is the only reference found so far to the earlier font, unless the fragment found in the Abbey Retreat House -cf. infra- is what remains of it]. Pevsner (1958) notes the modern font: "1856-7 by Sir G. G. Scott." The St. John's Parish web site [www.stjohns-glastonbury.org.uk] notes: "The font was designed by Gilbert Scott in 1856, reputedly from fragments of the original." The font is a Victorian version of a Perpendicular octagonal font, decorated with tracery, shields, etc.; and topped with a tall wooden cover with crocketed arrisses and finial. David Gowland, of Glastonbury St John's, notes: "In the garden of Glastonbury Abbey Retreat House is a flower trough. It is though that this is the original top section of a font, from which the design was copied" [e-mail to BSI of 20 November 2007]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST4999139013] does not mention a font in it. The Somerset Historic Environment Record entry for this church [Site 23572] notes the possibility of an early church here modified in the 12th and 13th centuries. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original Norman church on this site -- We have no information either on the font from the Church of St. Michael, of which building only part of the tower has survived]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1482, -2.7162

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 53.52″ N, 2° 42′ 58.32″ W

UTM: 30U 519851 5666344

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1856 / Victorian

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836