Norton Fitzwarren
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Image Source: postcard ca. 1928 (?) [http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ASP/PostcardShow.asp?Image=../Images/Postcard2/A3016/A3016139.jpg&Title=Norton+Fitzwarren%2C+Church+interior] [accessed 24 September 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14677NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut?], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3227, 4 km W of Taunton
Additional Comments: re-cut font? / damaged? / mutilated?
Font Notes:
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Jeboult (1873) reports: "The font has the appearance of having been mutilated", with tradition blaming the Puritans; the same source notes: "It is proposed to erect a new font". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). A 1928 postcard of the church interior [http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ASP/PostcardShow.asp?Image=../Images/Postcard2/A3016/A3016139.jpg&Title=Norton+Fitzwarren%2C+Church+interior] [accessed 24 September 2009] shows the font located in he north-side bank of pews, a plain cylindrical basin with a round and flat wooden cover. The surface of the basin appears very neat, quite possibly re-cut or re-tooled.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
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. 67 / [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]