Stawley

INFORMATION

FontID: 15399STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Wiveliscombe, 19 km from Taunton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Jeboult (1873) reports "a good font" in this Early English church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The 1956 entry in the Taunton Deane Borough Council 'Listed Buildings' site [http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/tdbcsites/her/her_lb/lbdets.asp?id=002055] [accessed 28 September 2009] notes: "Octagonal font on octagonal shaft set into square base with flattened broaches, C14."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Jeboult, Edward, A General Account of West Somerset, description of the Valley of the Tone, and the history of the twon of Taunton, Taunton: Somerset and Bristol Steam-press, 1873