Easton-in-Gordano / Eston in Gordon / Estone
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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop - 12
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen & Moyra Jones, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 24 April 2006 by Stephen & Moyra Jones
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 14 Sept 2009)
BU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen & Moyra Jones, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 24 April 2006 by Stephen & Moyra Jones
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 14 Sept 2009)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen & Moyra Jones, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 24 April 2006 by Stephen & Moyra Jones
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 14 Sept 2009)
INFORMATION
FontID: 15302EAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the M5, 13 km NW of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [composite font], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Stephen & Moyra Jones, of www.origins.plus.com, for their photographs of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is no mention of a font in Pevsner (1958). Noted in the National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=33455] [accessed 14 September 2009]. The Parish web site [http://www.origins.plus.com/eastoning/eigprofile.htm] [accessed 14 September 2009] illustrates the font and notes: "The font in the nave is partly Norman." The font is indeed a composite object; the basin may be the original from a Norman font, square and with three trumpet scallops on each side projecting toward a roll moulding below; it is raised on a base made up of four green marble colonnettes placed at the angles of an almost Corinthian central shaft; the moulded lower base is in ochre marble and the plinth in black marble. Quite a Victorian kitschy composite! The wooden cover is a square pyramid with crocketed arrises and pinnacled angles, Victorian as well.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: yes [counterweight?]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]