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

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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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view of font

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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
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
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