Bradford-on-Tone
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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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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
FontID: 13376BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A38, 6 km WSW of Taunton
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of the modern font
Font Notes: Click to view 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]
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
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929