Bishops Lydeard / Bishop's Lydeard
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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Scene Description: the re-carved font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tony Ethridge in Somerset Villages [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/333663/photo16.html] [accessed 3 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Tony Ethridge in Somerset Villages [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/333663/photo16.html] [accessed 3 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14572LYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A358, 9 km NW of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the S entrance
Century and Period: 14th century [re-carved in the 19th century], Decorated [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicualr] (or C17?), with panelled stem and complicated quatrefoils, rosettes, crosses, etc., on the bowl." Noted and illustrated in Somerset Villages [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/333663/photo16.html] [accessed 3 May 2009]: "The font dates from the 14th century and was restored in the 19th century. " Octagonal basin with chamfered underbowl; raised on an octagonal stem, an octagonal-to-square lower base and a rectangular plinth; the basin sides, underbowl and stem are re-carved with Victorian tracery patterns. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, but quite thick; Victorian?
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958