Badgworth

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by D. Bown [http://members.lycos.co.uk/dbown100/badgworthAlbum101.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2008]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bown, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by D. Bown [http://members.lycos.co.uk/dbown100/badgworthAlbum101.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14092BAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Congar
Church Patron Saints: St. Congar [aka Concarius, Congar of Congresbury, Cumgar, Cungar, Cyngar]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A38, 3 km WSW of Axbridge -- Badgworth is now part of the Crook Peak Parish, together with Biddisham, Christon, Compton Bishop, Loxton and Weare
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dave Bown, of http://dbown100.tripod.com/album.htm, for his photograph of this font
Noted in The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=268751] [accessed 11 December 2008] [after Pevsner, 1958?]: "Font on 4 clustered shafts probably C13". The Parish web site [http://www.crookpeakparish.org.uk/index.asp?pageid=78642] [accessed 11 December 2008] has: "of very early date probably Early English or Norman". The cylindrical basin shows signs of new-stone insert repair at the upper rim area, consistent with the position of old cover staples; it otherwise appears to have undergone a drastic clean up; the splaying lower base forms a quatrefoil shape and is moulded. The wooden font cover is flar and round, and appears modern. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]