Wellington nr. Taunton / Walintone / Weolingtun
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15368WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist [previously St. Mary?]
Church Notes: According to the Wellington Town Council web site [www.wellingtontowncouncil.co.uk/freepage.asp?ID=2] [accessed 27 September 2011] the earlier church here, going back as far as 1178, may have been dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High Street, Wellington, Somerset, TA218SF
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 12 km S of Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports "the font is modern and richly carved", thereby indicating that the original font from the 13th-century church was no longer there. Pevsner does not mention the font but notes the cover, "a recent addition, designed by W. H. Randall Blacking". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 12th or the 13th-century church(s) here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 483938 5647492
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.9788, -3.2288
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 58′ 43.68″ N, 3° 13′ 43.68″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 334