Weston-super-Mare
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13407WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [originally from an earlier church, perhaps St. John's?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M5, 30 km SW of Bristol, across the Severn from Cardiff
Additional Comments: not clear which of the town churches this font is now at -- abandoned font / disused font / restored font
Font Notes:
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Described in Rutter (1829): "The font is a Norman relic. It was for a long time neglected, and suffered to lie exposed in the contiguous paddock, but the present rector has had it cleaned and restored to its proper place in the church. It is of free-stone, (Oolite,) unusual in this part of the country."
Wade & Wade (1929) report a font near the chancel, and describe it as a remnant of an earlier church [NB: the medieval church of St. John's?]. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, square, with three scallops on each side below the bowl." [NB: Pevsner (1958) reports a 1949 font cover by W.H.R. Blacking on the font at the Church of All Saints, a 19th-century church also in Weston-super-Mare; he does not mention the font]
Wade & Wade (1929) report a font near the chancel, and describe it as a remnant of an earlier church [NB: the medieval church of St. John's?]. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, square, with three scallops on each side below the bowl." [NB: Pevsner (1958) reports a 1949 font cover by W.H.R. Blacking on the font at the Church of All Saints, a 19th-century church also in Weston-super-Mare; he does not mention the font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Oolite)
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 337
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 10 April 2008]