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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 14342PRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NW of Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). Noted in the English Heritage National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=268099] [accessed 20 March 2009] as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The baptismal font consists of a crudely carved cylindrical basin with a moulding at the lower end, raised on a cylindrical stem and a heavy circular lower base. The inner well of the basin is lead-lined. The wooden cover is round and flat, perhaps 19th-century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]