Langford Budville

Results: 3 records

BU01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

UB01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

UB02: design element - architectural - buttress

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 15374LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Wellington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 18th century [composite font?], Perpendicular [composite]
Font Notes:
Described in Pevsner (1958): "Perp[endicular], octagonal. Stem with panels and angle buttresses. Bowl with panelled underside. The form and carving of the bowl itself look very late, perhaps Marian [i.e., 1689+)". The National Monuments Record [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=270981] [accessed 22 September 2009] notes: "Perpendicular font on ornately carved base, possibly mid C16."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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