Monkton Combe
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the Victorian font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, March 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13405MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Bath
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the orig font of the Norman church
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font now at Monkton Combe St. Michael's dates from the Victorian replacement of the 1814 church that had become dilapidated by the mid-19th century; the original church which preceded the 1814 one is believed to have been Norman. Lewis (1876) writes of the Victorian renovation and notes that "The working men contributed the font as their share of the work" [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and plain, with ring handle
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Harold, The Chuch Rambler : a series of articles on the churches in the neighbourhood of Bath, London; Bath: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; William Lewis, The Herald Office, 1876, p. 103