Low Ham / Nether Ham

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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 21 August 2009 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15208HAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [formerly a manor chapel]
Church Patron Saints: [no dedication]
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located near High Ham, 8 km E of Somerton, 18 W of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photograph of the modern font
Kelly's Directory of 1939 reports: "the font is Norman". The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2005) notes: "There was a chapel at Low Ham, probably in the 13th century [...] and certainly by 1316 when a chantry recently granted there for the benefit of one landowner was suppressed in favour of an earlier foundation for another [...] The chapel was served by a succession of stipendiary curates appointed by the lords of the manor, most of whom served parochial cures in the neighbourhood other than High Ham." No font mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=263114] [accessed 30 August 2009] notes "Under the tower a C19 octagonal font" [NB: there may have been earlier fonts in the original chapel, but the present font is modern, probably of the 19th century, as is the flat and round font cover on it; the present chapel dates back to the 17th century].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.058333, -2.811111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 3′ 30″ N, 2° 48′ 40″ W
UTM: 30U 513238 5656329

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-08-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Somerset, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1939