St. Catherine nr. Bath
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13476CAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Catherine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katharine, Katherine]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A46, 6-7 km NE of Bath
Font Notes:
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Noted as a Norman font in the Handbook for travellers… (1869). Wilson's Gazetteer (1870-1872) reports a Norman font in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) note the "late Norm[an] or E[arly] E[nglish] [...] fine font, with its variety of mouldings". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Probably C13, an odd design with thin blank pointed arcading and a fluted underside." The font consists of a quadrangular basin with rounded angles and underbowl; the sides are decorated with a blind arcade of pointed arches, with supports only on every other arch; the underbowl is ribbed all around; the base consists of a short cylindrical stem and a round lower base with graded moulding. The wooden cover is pyramidal polygonal with colourful decorations; it appears old.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 300 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA161,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 253
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 5 April 2008]
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [http://vision.edina.ac.uk/gaztext_page.jsp;jsessionid=23C34534E5F9FA059D1221E5A9855324?u_id=10439930&c_id=10001043] [accessed 5 April 2008]