Fitzhead / Fifida
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2008 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 August 2008 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14725FIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NW of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Additional Comments: disappeared font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with cusped panels inscribing a variety of motifs, raised on a pedestal and lower base, both octagonal, and a poligonal plinth with kneeling extensio. The plain wooden cover is octagonal and flat. All of it is probably dated to the mid-19th century renovation of this church [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 15th centuty, but we have no information of the original font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 481502 5655307
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]