Burnham-on-Sea

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15332NUR
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: The stoup is adjacent the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km NW of Bridgwater, 16 km W of Axbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Additional Comments: disappeared font? The original 14C?
Font Notes:
The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=433731] [accessed 17 September 2009] notes a 14th-century holy-water "stoup with a finial" adjacent the south doorway; this source also mentions a font, but it is a 19th-century piece dating from the Victorian renovation of the church. The stoup is wall-mounted, and consists of a polygonal basin with heavily moulded front and a backdrop with a floral finial. Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports a font of that year "in varied marble" newly erected in the baptistery [there is no mention of the whereabouts of the replaced font].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 140