Wookey Hole

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2008 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14697WOO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: High Street, Wookey Hole, Somerset, BA5 1BS
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of the modern font
The present font is a 19th-century version of a late-medieval design: octagonal basin with shields and floral motifs on the sides, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with shields with intials in them in tarcery fields. On a two-step plinth. Wooden cover of the same period, low dome with moulded edges (there is a plain flat cover behind the font; also modern]. [NB: we have no information on any other fonts from this church; we have dound no record of an earlier church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 522737 5674763

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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