Thurloxton

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
view of basin and cover
view of church exterior - southeast view
INFORMATION
FontID: 13488THU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: 54 Mill Ln, Thurloxton, Taunton TA2 8RJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1278 662429
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A38, equidistant [8 km] from Bridgwater (NE) and Taunton SW
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of North Petherton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry for Thurloxton found in the Domesday survey. Wade & Wade (1929) report an "old tub font" in this church. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "The church of Thurloxton may have been one of the daughter churches and chapels of the minster church of North Petherton, in which residuary rights were granted to Buckland priory before 1176. [...] By 1195 and probably much earlier it had become an independent rectory, and by that year a temporary vicarage had been established [...] The plain font, perhaps of c. 1100, has an octagonal, crocketted cover of the 14th century." The round tapering basin is raised on a modern base. Pevsner (1958) does not mention the font but reports a wooden font cover of the 1630s in this church. [NB: the 14th-century dating assigned to the cover in the VCH is quite unlikely; the octagonal pyramidal font is most likely 17th-century]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST2745830425] reports a "Norman tub font with a C17 cover" in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.0685,
-3.0367
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 4′ 6.6″ N,
3° 2′ 12.12″ W
UTM: 30U 497429 5657443
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929