Swainswick / Swanswick / Swayneswycke
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in ww.allthecotswolds.com
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in ww.allthecotswolds.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in ww.allthecotswolds.com
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view of church exterior - portal
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in ww.allthecotswolds.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in ww.allthecotswolds.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13538SWA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (base only) -- 15th century (basin only) [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A46, 5 km NE of Bath
Additional Comments: disappeared font -- painted font (traces still on it)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Tunstall (1848?) as a Norman font. The Handbook for travellers… (1869) describes dates the font and the tower to the Early English period. The font actually appears to be a composite font made up of different parts: the basin is octagonal with lain sides and a moulded underbowl, probably 15th-century; it is raised on an earlier base [12th-13th century?] made of a plain cylindrical stem and a round lower base with graded moulding, and a rectangular plinth. The wooden cover, probably Victorian, is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). [NB: the building goes back to to Norman times, as indicated by the entrance arch decorated with zigzag pattern, but we have no information of the earlier font of this church]
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: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 299 / [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]
- Tunstall, James, Rambles about Bath, and its neighbourhood, London; Bath: Simpkin, Marsahll and Co.; William Pocock, 1847, p. 236 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=wawHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&dq=swainswick+church+font&source=web&ots=RC_DtGol5Q&sig=HUoB2Nx2gE9qz7DRPa-LYdXmnuY&hl=en] [accessed 8 June 2008]