Luxborough
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - moulding
CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of font and cover
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14757LUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, N end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SSW of Dunster
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
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]