Kelston
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Baber, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by Bob Baber [http://www.any-village.co.uk/picturegallery.asp?SiteID=AVUK&SpecID=kelston&Town=Kelston&County=Avon&CatID=PictureGallery] [accessed 8 June 2008]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: alll around the underbowl
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Baber, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by Bob Baber [http://www.any-village.co.uk/picturegallery.asp?SiteID=AVUK&SpecID=kelston&Town=Kelston&County=Avon&CatID=PictureGallery] [accessed 8 June 2008]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthe cotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground, right side
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Image Source: Digital photograph by Bob Baber [http://www.any-village.co.uk/picturegallery.asp?SiteID=AVUK&SpecID=kelston&Town=Kelston&County=Avon&CatID=PictureGallery] [accessed 8 June 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Baber, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph by Bob Baber [http://www.any-village.co.uk/picturegallery.asp?SiteID=AVUK&SpecID=kelston&Town=Kelston&County=Avon&CatID=PictureGallery] [accessed 8 June 2008]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13541KEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A431, 6 km NW of Bath
Date: ca. 1591?
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Elizabethan
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with quatrefoils in square panels; the underbowl is decorated with a ribbed pattern, and there are parallel mouldings at the lower rim of the basin and at the centre ring position; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base, a narrow circular lower base and an octagonal plnth. Wooden flat cover, octagonal and flat, with ring handle. The font is probably from the Victorian renovation [ca. 1860?] of this church. [NB: we have no information of the earlier font(s) of this church]. Lewis (1876) writes of a local aristocrat, John Harrington, who built the manor house at Kelston in 1587, in which he entertained Queen Elizabeth in 1591, for which hospitality, a story has, "she gave him a gold font to commemorate her visit which was transferred by his son to Bristol for safety, and was there melted down into money by the Parliament" [i.e., the Commonwealth, 1649+]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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