Lydeard St. Lawrence

INFORMATION

FontID: 13449LYD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) B3224, 7 km SW of Crowcombe, 13 km NW of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
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
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929