Chapel Allerton nr. Sedgemoor

INFORMATION

FontID: 15333CHA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Axbridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

The Natinal Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=268762] [accessed 17 September 2009] notes a "Norman tub font with elaborate Jacobean cover". Pevsner (1958) mentions only the Jacobean cover.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century? / Jacobean?

Material: wood

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958