West Hatch / West Hache
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 2 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2008 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - south aisle - looking west
Scene Description: the 19th-century font and cover to the south of the organ
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2008 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14669HAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: West Hatch, Somerset, TA3 5RJ
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SE of Taunton, 13 km NW of Ilminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Click to view
Noted in Jeboult (1873) as a new font with a handsome cover [NB: the fabric of the church is 16th-century, but we have no information on the original font of this church; the present font dates from the 19th-century renovation]. The present font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, moulded underbowl; raisen on an octagonal stem and moulded octagonal lower base. The wooden cover is a good one, with eight roofed trefoiled windows.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 498758 5647957
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873, p. 100 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=h-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA100&lpg=RA1-PA100&dq=west+hatch+church+font&source=bl&ots=8DPeBrOd_W&sig=MBiQ5MYBqifsAD89-vQ_wGSHaKA&hl=en&ei=woMRSv6yH4jOMqKBnbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP7,M1] [accessed 18 May 2009]