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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: 19th-century drawing in the Clifton Antiquarian Club proceedings

Image Source: 19th-century drawing in the Clifton Antiquarian Club proceedings

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]

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view of church interior - north aisle

Image Source: grey scale version of a digital photograph from the Parsih website [accessed 3 February 2008]

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a 19th-century drawing in the Clifton Antiquarian Club proceedings

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 2 February 2008 [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 February 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13342STA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B3130, 12 km S of Bristol

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in W end of the N aisle

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the information on this font, and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com. for the photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Rutter (1829): "The font is plain, circular, and massive." Described in the National Gazetteer of 1868 as "a font of great antiquity". Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "a curious old font, on a pedestal, which is said to be Early Saxon". Described in Pevsner (1958): " Circular bowl on circular base with four attched demi-shatfs. The neck a triple moulding. What is the date?" The font consists now of two ill-matched parts: the upper half is made up of a hemispherical basin with the upper half of the stem and central ring attached, and the lower half, a square pillar with widely chamfered angles; all of it is raised on a quadrangular plainth. The overhang of the new lead lining of the basin appears to cover a damaged rim. It is unlikely that the pedestal was the original support of the font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining [modern]

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 102.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in ft. / in. in the Clifton Antiquary Club proceedings]

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868

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

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