West Harptree
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the Victorian replacement font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13359HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: West Harptree, Bath and North East Somerset BS40 6EB
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3114, 13 km SSW of Bristol
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes [http://www.allthecotswolds.com], for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "a fine circular font". Wade & Wade (1929) report "a large Norman font" in this church. However, the baptismal font now in West Harptree St. Mary's is probably a 19th-century Victorian replacement. There is no font mentioned in Pevsner's entry (1958).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 525853 5684197
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: ocatagonal and flat, with ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929