Puckington
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13474PUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3168, 5 km NE of Ilminster
Additional Comments: altered font / re-tooled?
Font Notes:
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Wade & Wade (1929) report "a Norm[an] font with cable moulding" Described in Pevsner (1958: "Norman, circular, renewed. With one cable-moulding." The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=264452] [accessed 25 September 2009] notes: "Norman tub font with cable banding, C19 cover with fine wrought-iron decoration."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood and metal
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 279
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 5 April 2008]