Nempnett Thrubwell
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
Results: 6 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the basin sides show the later recarving
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 27 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of basin
![12th-century font re-carved in the 16th century [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150302007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: 12th-century font re-carved in the 16th century [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 27 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Lord, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2011 by John Ford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2266646] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosalind Mitchell, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 December 2002 by Rosalind Mitchell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1926] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font cover
Scene Description: 17th-century?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 27 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of base
![12th-century font re-carved in the 16th century [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150302008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: 12th-century font re-carved in the 16th century [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 27 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13458NEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-carved in the 16th century], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Pit Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bath and North East Somerset BS40 8YH
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A368, on the E shores of Blagdon Lake, 16 km SSW of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Keynsham
Additional Comments: re-carved font (12thC font recarved in the 16thC) / re-cycled font
Font Notes:
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Wade & Wade (1929) report a "Norm[an] font carved with a curious device by some later craftsman" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular on circular stem. With close early C16 tracery on the bowl and small naïvely carved demi-figures." English Heritage
[Listing NGR: ST5328360400] (1960) notes: "font in nave has circular bowl on circular stem, close early C16 tracery on the bowl and small naively-carved demi-figures, fined carved polygonal wooden cover" [after Pevsner (1958)]. The font consists of a tub-shaped basin mounted on a cylindrical pedestal base; the carving showing on the sides of the basin does indeed look 'curious', a fanciful arcade filled with tracery and human heads, as noted above, none of it Norman, but the original shape of the font is consistent with its Romanesque claim. The wooden cover, in the shape if a polygonal [decagonal? / dodecagonal?] pyramid appears old, perhaps 17th century?
[Listing NGR: ST5328360400] (1960) notes: "font in nave has circular bowl on circular stem, close early C16 tracery on the bowl and small naively-carved demi-figures, fined carved polygonal wooden cover" [after Pevsner (1958)]. The font consists of a tub-shaped basin mounted on a cylindrical pedestal base; the carving showing on the sides of the basin does indeed look 'curious', a fanciful arcade filled with tracery and human heads, as noted above, none of it Norman, but the original shape of the font is consistent with its Romanesque claim. The wooden cover, in the shape if a polygonal [decagonal? / dodecagonal?] pyramid appears old, perhaps 17th century?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 522819 5687740
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.340484, -2.672394
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 20′ 25.74″ N, 2° 40′ 20.62″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 232
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]