Wookey Hole
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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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
Font ID: 14697WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: High Street, Wookey Hole, Somerset, BA5 1BS
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 522737 5674763
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal