Twerton / Twertona / Twertone / Twiverton
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B01: design element - motifs - scallop
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Image Source: July 1789 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of a font in this church, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/t/005add000015547u00102000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: July 1789 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of a font in this church, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/t/005add000015547u00102000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011
Image Source: July 1789 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of a font in this church, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/t/005add000015547u00102000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]
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Image Source: July 1789 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of a font in this church, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/t/005add000015547u00102000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13489TWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Watery Lane, Twerton, Somerset, BA2 1RL
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Twerton is now in the western suburbs of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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There is a July 1789 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of a font in this church, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15547 - Item number: f.102]. The Handbook for travellers… (1869) reports a Norman font in this church. Lewis (1876) notes the "fine Norman doorway with pellet and chevron moulding, which has been removed from the south to the west of the church. This, and the octagonal font which has been however raised on a plinth are the only remains of a Norman foundation." Wade & Wade (1929) report that a "good Norm[an] doorway, now built into the N[orth] porch, and a Norm[an] font, are relics of the original church". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 541895 5692367
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Lewis, Harold, The Chuch Rambler : a series of articles on the churches in the neighbourhood of Bath, London; Bath: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; William Lewis, The Herald Office, 1876
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929