Orchard Portman

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13464ORC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: In the baptistry [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SSE of Taunton
Additional Comments: moved font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Wade & Wade (1929) report: "The most noteworthy features of its small Perp[endicular] church is a Norm[an] S[outh] door, and an ancient font (likewise presumably Norm[an]) of curious shape." The Listed Buildings of the Taunton Deane Borough Council [http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/tdbcsites/her/her_lb/lbdets.asp?id=001870] [accessed 30 March 2008] reports a "circular font in the porch" on 25 February 1955. This relegation of the font to the porch is explained in Phil Draper (2008) [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/OrchardPortman/StMichael.html] [accessed 30 March 2008] who notes that "the north porch has been turned into a baptistry". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]