Bishopsteignton / Bishop's Teignton
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Results: 10 records
B01:
design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: a band of them, all around the basin sides
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cox & Harvey (1907: p. opp. p. 196)
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BBL01:
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: below the band of palmette motif; all around
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cox & Harvey (1907: p. opp. p. 196)
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BBL02:
design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: below the rope moulding
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cox & Harvey (1907: p. opp. p. 196)
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BBU01:
design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand - with beads
Scene Description: all around the upper rim side
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cox & Harvey (1907: p. opp. p. 196)
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Scene Description: over the blocked south doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1982
Image Source: photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727531] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: notice the blocked south doorway, but the old tympanum still above it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1982
Image Source: photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727529] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1982
Image Source: photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727530] [accessed 28 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1982
Image Source: photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727532] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]I
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cox & Harvey (1907: p. opp. p. 196)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01469BIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist [also to All Saints?]
Church Location: Church Road, Bishopsteignton, Devon, TQ14 9QH
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A381, 5 km W of Teignmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: Fowey (Cornwall). The fonts at Chickerell, Eardisley, Morwenstow, South Milton and Bishopsteignton, all have a cable moulding that appears to contract the shape of the vessel into a cup-shape (or 'girdle type') [see also FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908)
Listed in Lysons (1806-1822) as a baptismal font "among many of circular form and an early age, enriched with various carved mouldings, wreaths, scrolls, or foliage". Oliver (1840-1842) writes: "The Saxon font is coeval I think, with the ancient western doorway." [NB: Oliver (ibid.) has the dedication of the church as "All Saints"]. Described and illustrated in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Norman tub-shaped font strikingly like that of Fowey, in Cornwall; upper band of twisted motif near the rim of the bowl followed below by an ornament of large palmettes; the bottom of the bowl has a cable band and the short base has a band of semicircular design; the plinth is square. Described and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font is Norman with a narrow band of carving round the edge of the bowl, a broader band lower down, then cable moulding, and a scallop pattern round the shaft." Described in Clarke (1914), who informs that this font "was unfortunately rechipped over its whole surface at a retoration in the last century, the original work is lost." Clarke compares its decorative pattern to the font at West Anstey, also in Devon. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font, "a graceful Devonshire example" of Norman fonts ornamented in the Classic design. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman, with three bands of much re-worked decoration." The entry for Tortington (West Sussex) in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/torti/Index.htm] gathers information for several sources that favour the existence of a workshop in Dorset ca. 1150 responsible for the manufacture of the fonts at Torrington, Bishop's Teignton, Honiton, South Molton, Dun[kes?]well, Luppitt and Blackhawton. [We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908)]
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 5.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 81.25 cm*
Basin Depth: [unknown]
Basin Total Height: 45 cm*
Height of Base: 32.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 77.5 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 97.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1914: 436)
REFERENCES
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part II", 46, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1914, pp. 428-435; r["References"]
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IV", 48, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1916, pp. 302-319; r["References"]
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VIII", 53, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1921, pp. 226-231; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Oliver, George, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon: being Observations on Several Churches in Devonshire, with some Memoranda for the History of Cornwall, Exeter: W.C. Featherstone, 1840-1842
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Ruprich-Robert, V., Architecture normande aux XIe et XIIe siècles en Normandie et en Angleterre, Paris: Libraririe des imprimeries réunies, 1884-1889
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
