Chapel Allerton nr. Sedgemoor
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15333CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Axbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Notes:
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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, p. 117