Weston-super-Mare

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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop - 12

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 13407WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [originally from an earlier church, perhaps St. John's?]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M5, 30 km SW of Bristol, across the Severn from Cardiff
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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]

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
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929