Bathford / Forde

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BBU01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: grayscale version of a digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 14 June 2008]

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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of font

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Image Source: 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the Brtish Library Online Gallery www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/b/largeimage85689.html] [accessed 29 October 2011]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13369BAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun
Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located at the A4-A363 crossroads, just 5 km ENE of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
There is a 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15546 - Item number: f. 154]. Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "Norman font." Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font fluted Norman." Wade & Wade (1929) report a Norman font in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Font. C13, octagonal with heavily scalloped underside and a kind of 'water-holding' base." The Bathford Society site [http://www.bathfordsociety.org.uk/content/buildings/st_swithuns_church_main.htm] [accessed 2 March 2008] notes: "The font is thirteenth century". The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides that end in a scallop at the underbowl level; it is raised on a cylindrical stem decorated with two roll mouldings, one at each end; the lower base is octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, decorated with metal work and handle; probably Victorian.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 548403 5694471

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["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