Batheaston

INFORMATION

FontID: 15278BAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located a few km NE of Bath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1700?
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,
Lewis (1876) describes the new 19th-century font: "The font is square, of Caen stone, supported on a quatrefoil shaft with columns of red Irish marble. The sides are filled in with carved medallions, and at the angles are the figures of the Evangelists. It is the work of R. L. Boulton, of Cheltenham, and was added in 1861 as a gift of the parishioners, organised by Mrs. Rogers. This has been recently copied with the permission of the vicar for a church in the Isle of Wight." There is no mention in Lewis of any other font. Pevsner (1958) describes the font is this church: "Octagonal, on baluster stem, c. 1700." [NB: the only other source we have at present is a photograph labelled "Batheaston church, near Bath… Font" [http://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/2941595424/in/photostream/] [accessed 9 September 2009]] that shows a modern and very different font, probably the Victorian one described in Lewis above]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Lewis, Harold, The Chuch Rambler : a series of articles on the churches in the neighbourhood of Bath, London; Bath: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; William Lewis, The Herald Office, 1876
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958