Monkton Combe
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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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
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
INFORMATION
FontID: 13405MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Bath
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
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]
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