Hartland No. 1 / Stoke-by-Hartland No. 1 / Stoke St Nectan

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - beaded-tape motif

Scene Description: on the four sides of the basin

Image Source: Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk] [detail ca. 2004]

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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped

Image Source: Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk] [detail ca. 2004]

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BU01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: facing down from the angles of the underbowl

Image Source: Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk] [detail ca. 2004]

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LB01: design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: all around the stem of the base

Image Source: Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk] [detail ca. 2004]

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LB02: design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: at the bottom of the stem

Image Source: Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk] [detail ca. 2004]

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LB03: design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: on the upper surface of the lower base

Image Source: Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk] [detail ca. 2004]

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LB04: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: heads or masks, one at each angle on the square portion of the lower base, corresponding to the heads that face down from the corresponding angles of the underbowl

Image Source: Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk] [detail ca. 2004]

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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1920)

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Image Source: engraving in Hussell (1910)

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Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

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Image Source: engraving in Lysons (1806-1833)

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Image Source: 1821 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by Buckler [presumably [John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894)] in the British Library collections [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/h/largeimage86074.html] [accesed 18 December 2011]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03431HAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nectan

Church Patron Saints: St. Nectan [aka Nighton]

Church Location: Stoke, Hartland, Stoke, Bideford EX39 6DU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1237 441142

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Stoke, at the extreme NW corner of the county, just NE of Bude

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Allan Soedring, of www.astoft.co.uk, for the photograph of this font, and to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908). [We are also grateful to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library for access to the copy of Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and to Jim Ingram, of the Preservation Services, Robarts Library, for the digital imaging of Lysons’ illustrations]

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There is a 1821 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by Buckler [presumably [John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894)] in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 36361 - Item number: f.109]; the font is shown raised on a narrow two-step quadrangular plinth, without a cover; the drawing includes measurements of the different areas of the font. Illustrated in Lysons (1806-1833). Paley (1844) describes this font as "a fine specimen of Norman work, of late or transition character [...] both the bowl and shaft covered with a variety of rich ornaments common to the style". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908): "the beautifully designed font at Hartland [...], with square bowl, circular shaft, with upper and lower cables, and spreading circular base resting on a square plinth; a simple version of this, almost devoid of carving, is to be seen in other churches in Devon. (Ibid., p. 47). Stabb (1908) writes: "The font is Norman [...], and has a square base connected by a cylindrical shaft with zigzag mouldings with the body, the corners of which and the base have carved heads facing each other, emblematical of the baptised looking down on the unbaptised." Clarke (1920) identifies the material as freestone and comments on the different details of the ornamentation, especially on the parallel motifs of human heads and masks that adorn the corners of the lower basin and the upper surface of the lower base: "It has been suggested that the heads on the bowl represent the baptised and regenerate, and the masks on the plinth the unbaptised and unregenerate. It is true tha a beard was held to be a sign of sanctity, but the intrepretation though attractive is not based on any precise evidence, indeed it is practically shattered on observing that on the plinth of Nerton font [cf. Index entry] there are two masks, lying flat and looking upwards; exactly as at Hartland; there they are clearly ornament, and nothing else." Noted and illustrated in Hussell (1910). In Tyrrell-Green (1928) as typical of the table-top Norman with zigzag or chevron motif on the stem. Described in Pevsner (1952), who dates it "Norman". Described in Betjeman (1958) as a "splendid Norman font". Hutton (1976) describes it as "a fine West Country late Norman font with square arcaded bowl" but gives the name of the place as "Stoke/by/Hartland". Described in Jenkins (1999) as a "square Norman font [...] highly decorated, with intersecting arches on the bowl and foot and zigzag on the stem." A 1929 photograph of this font exists in The Francis Frith Collection [Ref. code 82876 -- www.francisfrith.com]. A more recent image of this font can be seen at www.astoft.co.uk

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.995, -4.516389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 42″ N, 4° 30′ 59″ W

UTM: 30U 393587 5650363

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, freestone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: square (scalloped capital) (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square? [Paley shows as round]

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 7-9 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 49.5 - 48.75 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 - 62.5 cm*

Basin Depth: 21.25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 29.5 cm*

Height of Central Column: 29 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 91.25 cm* [65 + 26.25]

Notes on Measurements: * [measurements given in inches in Clarke (1920: 335)] [cf. also Buckler's drawing]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

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"]

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part V", 50, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1918, pp. 583-587; r["References"]

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VII", 52, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1920, pp. 327-335; 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

Hussell, Allen T., North Devon Churches: Studies of some of the ancient buildings, Barnstaple: Printed at the 'Herald' Press, 1910

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

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

Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928