Biddisham
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Results: 3 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop - 12
Scene Description: three on each side, filled with floral motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Biddisham/StJohn2.html] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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BBL02: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: inscribed in the scallops that adorn the lower rim of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Biddisham/StJohn2.html] [accessed 2 March 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Biddisham/StJohn2.html] [accessed 2 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13370BID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / composite?, Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A38, 8 km SSE of Weston-super-Mare
Additional Comments: altered font? / composite font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "an old Transition font" in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) report that the small church at Biddisham "retains a square Norm[an], font". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Square, Norman, with three scallops on the underside." The font is described and illustrated in Phil Draper's site [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Biddisham/StJohn2.html] [accessed 2 March 2008]: "Interesting Norman font, the square bowl may not be original but the rest is with rather ornate but rustic patterning above the scalloping".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 116
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 88
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 1 March 2008]