Bleadon

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BBL01: design element - motifs - groove

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover on the left (south) side, just west of the entrance

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13375BLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A370, 3 km SE of Weston-super-Mare
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side, just W of the entrance
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "old Norman font". Noted in Wade & Wade (1929) as a Norman font. Described in the Bleadon Church Guide [http://www.bleadon.org.uk/html/bleadonchurch.html] [accessed 2 March 2008]: "The Font is said to be a Norman tub font. The pedestal and steps on which the bowl is supported are later". The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal ring handle; modern. There is no mention of this font in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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