Lydeard St. Lawrence

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13449LYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) B3224, 7 km SW of Crowcombe, 13 km NW of Taunton
Additional Comments: re-cucled font? / composite font?
Font Notes:
Noted in Jeboult (1873): "The font is massive and old." Wade & Wade (1929) report: "the font seems to be double, an inverted Norman basin being surmounted by another of still older appearance". The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=270379] [accessed 22 September 2009] records a "Circular font and octagonal base, inverted." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873, p. 64 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=h-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100&lpg=RA1-PA100&dq=west+hatch+church+font&source=bl&ots=8DPeBrOd_W&sig=MBiQ5MYBqifsAD89-vQ_wGSHaKA&hl=en&ei=woMRSv6yH4jOMqKBnbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP7,M1] [accessed 18 May 2009]
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]