Claverton
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [acessed 13 June 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [acessed 13 June 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13550CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A36 (Warminster Rd), 3 km SE of Bath
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The modern font is described in Lewis (1876): "a handsome square modern one surrounded with medallions which would have looked just as well without a gilt background." Baptismal font probably of the mid 19th-century renovation of this church: quadrangular basin with chamfered angles, the sides decorated with deeply-carved biblical scenes; raised on the typical Victorian coloured marble supports [NB: the tower is Norman, but we have no information on the font from the original building]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 547954 5691953
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with chamfered angles, like the basin itself; metal decoration and ring handle; modern
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, p. 257-258