Stoodleigh / Stodlei / Stollei / Stoodleigh in Tiverton

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the lower base

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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human figure - face, head or mask

Scene Description: Four, at 90-degree angles on the upper base -- only two faces according to Pevsner (1952)

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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human figure - face, head or mask

Scene Description: one of them

Image Source: digital photograph 2020 in Devon Church Land [https://devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/stoodleigh-church-of-st-margaret-gallery/] [accessed 16 January 2023]

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human figure - face, head or mask

Scene Description: one of them

Image Source: digital photograph 2020 in Devon Church Land [https://devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/stoodleigh-church-of-st-margaret-gallery/] [accessed 16 January 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret's Church, Stoodleigh"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 October 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5580465] [accessed 16 January 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret's church, Stoodleigh"

Image Source: digital photograph 3 June 2011 by Derek Harper [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2448294] [accessed 16 January 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St Margaret's Church, Stoodleigh"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 October 2017 by Roger Cornfoot [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5580481] [accessed 16 January 2023]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph 2020 in Devon Church Land [https://devonchurchland.co.uk/galleries/stoodleigh-church-of-st-margaret-gallery/] [accessed 16 January 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00283STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Church Style, Stoodleigh, Tiverton EX16 9PH, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: There are two Stoodleighs in Devon; this one is located off € the A396, 5-6 km N of Tiverton just W of the A396, about 30 km N of Exeter

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Historical Region: Hundred of Witheridge [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Stoodleigh [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS9218/stoodleigh/] [accessed 16 January 2023]; neither of them mentions cleric or church in it. A fonrt here is described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as late-Norman dated by the spur or griffe that appears on the corners of its lower base, as well as "for their elongated proportions and the shape of the bowl"; these elements suggest to Bond (ibid.) a late 12th or, more likely, an early 13th-century date. The font consists of four elements: a plain, roughly hemispheric basin (as Bond indicates [cf. supra], rather elongated); it has an outer texture like coarse granite, while the inside well is lined with lead; the upper volume of the base is cylindrical and is ornamented with four humand heads/masks at 90-degree angles on its upper part; the next volume down is a thick round moulding with four large leaves at 90-degree angles (each corresponding to the head above); the lower volume, the plinth is square and may be of a later date. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman, with undecorated bowl, but two quaint faces sticking out of the shaft." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS9225818830] notes: "Parish church. Font probably C12; west tower, western bays of nave and aisle C15, church extended by one bay to the east, chancel rebuilt and whole church thoroughly restored 1872-9 […] The nave has an unusual possibly C12 font; a round bowl on a cylindrical stem decorated with 2 carved profile heads and mouldings on the base; C19 font cover in the Romanesque style."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9588, -3.53546

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 31.68″ N, 3° 32′ 7.66″ W

UTM: 30U 462394 5645380

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: hemispheric - mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined well

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; r["References"]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952