Chew Magna / Bishop's Chew
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: patterned moulding on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13340CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3130, about 11 km SSW of Bristol
Additional Comments: altered font?
Font Notes:
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Described in Rutter (1829): "The font is old and capacious, but modernised". Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "Curious old Norman font". Wade & Wade (1929) report a Norman font in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, the bowl concave and fluted, the base convex." Noted in 'The Church of St. Andrew, Chew Magna', a brief history of this church by Ian L. Durham [http://www.standrewschewmagna.org.uk/History1.htm] accessed 3 February 2008]: "The bowl-shaped font on its short round pillar is Norman and still contains the original lining of lead, no doubt from the mines on Mendip" [NB: the claim in this source is that the fabric of the church dates to about 1190]. The baptismal font consists of a roughly hemispherical decorated with broad slightly concave ribs all around [they appear to be the product of re-tooling, especially since the upper rim seems to show signs of older age, damage related to old cover staples, etc.]; it is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a moulded and patterned lower base. The cover, flat and round, appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/], for his photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
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, p. 161
- 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. 204
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 11 March 2008]