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BU01: design element - motifs

INFORMATION

FontID: 13473PUB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A37, 9 km SSE of Bristol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Tunstall (1847) notes: "Its font is Norman". Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "a curious old font" in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) report a "square font" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=32605] [accessed 21 September 2009] describes the font: "ashlar on an octagonal base, square bowl with decorated underside."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Tunstall, James, Rambles about Bath, and its neighbourhood, London; Bath: Simpkin, Marsahll and Co.; William Pocock, 1847
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929