Luxborough

Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - moulding
CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 14757LUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SSW of Dunster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, N end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=265357] [accessed 22 September 2009] notes a "C15 octagonal font" in this church. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin plain but for two mouldings, raised on an octagonal stem that appears plain. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]