East Harptree
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view of font and cover
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 church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13361HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B3114, 19-20 km SSW of Bristol
Font Notes:
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Wade & Wade (1929) report a Norman font in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). Baptismal font consisting of a plain hemispherical basin raised on a cylindrical pedestal base with a lower moulded level and a square lower base. The wooden font cover is a round platform with a raised crossed section, and 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
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]