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
FontID: 14677NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3227, 4 km W of Taunton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut?], Norman [altered]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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