Bradford-on-Tone

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the modern font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge
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the modern font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13376BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A38, 6 km WSW of Taunton
Additional Comments: altered font: the basin may have lost or destroyed / disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869) simply as "a font on a Norman base". By 1873 Jeboult reported a new font in place, and "the old one placed in the vestry". Wade & Wade (1929) note: "there is also preserved the base of a Norm[an] font (with foot ornament), supporting a bowl of later date". The 25 January 1956 entry for this church (Grade II*) in the Listed Buildings of the Taunton Deane Borough Council [http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/tdbcsites/her/her_lb/lbdets.asp?id=001902] [accessed 2 March 2008] mentions only a "Perpendicular style font of c1870". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). [NB: we have no photographic evidence, nor recent confirmation of the survival of the Norman base]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of the modern font

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: missing

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. 33 / [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]
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 360 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA161,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 1 March 2008]