Puxton

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the outer surface of the font scraped [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by FollowMeChaps 31 December 2005 [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/98201] [accessed 25 September 2008]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: notice the old benches on the sides

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograph 1947, author unknown [www.standrewscongresbury.org/uploads/Puxton%20Church%20-%20font%20reduced.jpg] [accessed 25 September 2008]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end

Image Source: photograph taken 26 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font and cover - west side

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: photograph taken 26 May 1982 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13869PUX

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Saviour

Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ

Church Location: Puxton Lane, Puxton, North Somerset BS24 6TF

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Congresbury, 8 km NW of Axbridge, in the N of the county

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Winterstoke

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [composite font?], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found in the Domesday survey for Puxton. The font here is not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). English Heritage [Listing NGR: ST4066763257] (1961) reports: "Norman tub font, scraped, C17 strapwork cover." The Congresbury-Puxton Parish web site [http://www.standrewscongresbury.org/history.php#top] [accessed 25 September 2008] notes: "The 12th century font rests on an older inverted font." The upper half is egg-cup shaped, and has a decorative moulding at the upper rim; the lower half, now serving as base, is of hemispherical shape and appears totally plain. [NB: there is nothing apparent on the lower half to substantiate the claim [cf. supra] of it being older than the upper half]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.3652, -2.8536

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 21′ 54.72″ N, 2° 51′ 12.96″ W

UTM: 30U 510192 5690448

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]