Bishops Hull / Bishop's Hull
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13371BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the link road between the A38 and the A358, just W of Taunton
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Jeboult (1873): "The font is handsome and massive." Wade & Wade (1929) mention in passim a font, quite probably from the "ludicrous example of Philistinism" that replaced the "small but interesting Perp[endicular] church". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). [NB: we have no other information on the font of the original Perpendicular church. The font noted in Jeboult could be an earlier one given his description]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873, p. 25 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=h-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100&lpg=RA1-PA100&dq=west+hatch+church+font&source=bl&ots=8DPeBrOd_W&sig=MBiQ5MYBqifsAD89-vQ_wGSHaKA&hl=en&ei=woMRSv6yH4jOMqKBnbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP7,M1] [accessed 18 May 2009]
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 1 March 2008]