Wookey / Woky

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14696WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3139, 3 km W of Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "the font is ancient". Baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin with mouldings at the upper and the lower rims; raised on a circular pedestal decorated with a single moulding about one third down; lower base round at the top, square at the bottom. Font cover has a round wooden platform, with a set of raised metal scrolls and a cross finial. Pevsner (1958) notes: "Font 1823 (?)", but it is written under the "Plate" heading, and obviously refers to an object other than the baptismal font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 521550 5673157

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958