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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15313ROW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NE of Axbridge, 10 km SE of Yatton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Notes:
Described in Pevsner (1958): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with knobbly foliage panels, and one panel with the Lamb." The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=268823] [accessed 15 September 2009] notes: "C14 font with a Jacobean cover, royal arms of 1637" [NB: not clear where the royal arms are].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean? / 17th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 263