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INFORMATION
FontID: 13403CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bridget
Church Patron Saints: St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A370, halfway between Nailsea (NE) and Yatton (SW), 13 km SW of Bristol [Coordinates: 51° 24′ 42.84″ N, 2° 46′ 4.08″ W
51.4119, -2.7678]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S side
Date: ca. 1140
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Wade & Wade (1929): "Norm[an] font on the S[outh] side of the building". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). Rees (2003) notes a font from ca. 1140, "In the thirteenth century the square corners of the bowl were cut off to make it octagonal."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square [re-cut to octagonal]
Basin Exterior Shape: square [re-cut to octagonal]
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal crown-shaped; date unknown
REFERENCES
Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929