Queen Charlton
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - arch
Scene Description: this arch must have been part of the original Norman church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13383QUE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A37, just SW of Keynsham, S of Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [upper half only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes [http://www.allthecotswolds.com], for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: There is a lovely Norman arch now forming part of a wall in the vilage; it must have belonged to the church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=32468] [accessed 10 September 2009] has: "Font is C12, ashlar, a cylindrical stem, an octagonal bowl with a cushion base". The baptismal font at St. Margaret's is a composite one; the basin and the upper half of the stem appear to be original; the lower half of the stem, the moulded lower base and the plinth are a modern replacement. The basin is square, with widely chamfered angles that make it practically octagonal; the sides are cushion-capital shaped but it is not as tall as the usual for the period; there is a thin moulding where the underbowl joins the stem; the stem itself is cylindrical and plain. The wooden font cover matches the outer shape of the basin, and is flat, with a ring handle; appears modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]