Lufton No. 1
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B01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lufton/page1.html [accessed 26 March 2008]
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BBU01: design element - patterns
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lufton Parish, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lufton/page1.html [accessed 26 March 2008]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lufton Parish, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lufton/page1.html [accessed 26 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13446LUF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km W of Yeovil
Additional Comments: email sent to francis@burroughes7.fsnet.co.uk requesting photo of font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "ancient Norman font". Wade & Wade (1929) report: "The church has been rebuilt, but preserves its Norman font (with cable moulding), and a holy-water stoup (within the S. door)". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, with one cable-moulding and crosses in circles." Described and illustrated in the Parish web page [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lufton/page1.html] [accessed 26 March 2008]: "The Norman font, the great treasure of the church, is of a date no later than the eleventh century. It testifies to the long witness of Christian worship on this site, as it may even be Saxon in origin, carved out of a single block of Ham stone, and is a plain tub shape, with a simple rope moulding as decoration, its detail still as clear and precise after a thousand years as when it was first carved." The font is tub-shaped, roughly cylindrical, with a band of cross-in-a-circle motif around the upper basin side, and a thick rope moulding around its middle; the broad base is made of several stone blocks cemented together.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, plain and round; modern
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 253
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 225
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]