Goathurst / Gahers
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Edward's church, Goathurst. The C14 west tower is the earliest part of the church which has diagonal supporting buttresses. The rest of the church is entirely Perpendicular."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2012 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3156834] [accessed 3 April 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14726GOA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edward King and Martyr
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edward the Confessor
Church Address: Long Lane, Goathurst, Bridgwater TA5 2DE, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) Ensmore Rd, Between Enmore (SSW) and Durleigh (ENE), SW of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Andersfield
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the church recorded here in 1256)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Goathurst [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2534/goathurst/] [accessed 3 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "A church was recorded in 1266 [...] The church of St. Edward, so dedicated by 1559 [...] In 1884 the church was restored by J. Houghton Spencer [...] The 15th-century font and rood stair survive." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with quatrefoil panels, the underbowl chamfer decorated as well; raised on an octagonal pedestal stem with trefoiled arches or windows on the sides, and a splaying lower base. The wooden cover is flat and plain, octagonal. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 495659 5661281
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.103, -3.062
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 6′ 10.8″ N, 3° 3′ 43.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.