Flax Bourton

Results: 2 records

design element - motifs - scallop

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael and All Angels Church, Flax Bourton. Viewed across the A370 Main Road. The Anglican Parish Church in the Diocese of Bath & Wells has 12th century origins, with later alterations and a mid 19th century restoration. "

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaggery, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2012 by Jaggery [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3713797] [accessed 8 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 13426FLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: A370, Flax Bourton, North Somerset, BS48 3PY, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A370, just W of the crossroads with the B3129, 3 km E of Nailsea, 9 km WSW of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 13th, 15th and 19thC
No entry found for Flax Bourton in the Domesday survey. Wade & Wade (1929) mention a font in this church without any detail of it. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, square, with big scallops on the underside." The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1129835] [accessed 8 November 2017] reports: "Font: C12, scalloped square bowl on cylindrical base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.4212, -2.711
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 25′ 16.32″ N, 2° 42′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 520095 5696705

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929