Lympsham

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UB01: design element - motifs - zigzag

INFORMATION

FontID: 13450LYM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Christopher
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located W of the A370, 10 km SSE of Weston-supre-Mare
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Wade & Wade (1929) report a tub font of the 12th century in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The font is now [February 2009] coated in thick whitewash; it consists of a tub-shaped basin with a single moulding all around [NB: this could be a metal reinforcement belt, rather than a moulding; the whitewash makes it look like a moulding]; raised on a cylindrical stem decorated with a tall zigzag moulding; the lower base appears shaped like a cushion-capital; stands on a two-step plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with a crwon-like lower platform; appears Victorian (?) [NB: the present church is said to date from the 15th century; perhaps this font belonged to an earlier edifice?]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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