Radstock
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 30 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 30 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 30 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13328RAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A367, 13 km SW of Bath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "a fine old Norman font, removed some time back from a neighbouring farm, where it had served as a trough for cattle; this has been cleaned and is now in use." Wade & Wade (1929) report "a heavy Norm[an] font" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958), who describes Radstock as "desperately ugly". The font is monolithic and cylindrical in shape, with a rope moulding roughly around the lower basin side. Raised on a small plinth. Flat and round wooden cover; with metal decorations and ring handle. Both plinth and cover appear modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped -- cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929