Torbryan / Torbrian
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: recarved, a/p illustration in Hutton (1957)
INFORMATION
FontID: 04793TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSW of Newton Bushell
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an ancient font" in this church, and so does the National Gazetteer of 1868. Described and illustrated in Hutton (1976) as a restored font with a Jacobean cover. The illustration in Hutton shows an octagonal basin, totally plain but for a thin horizontal incision all around it; the pedestal base is also octagonal and has unlikely trefoil arches, one on each side; the lower base is laso octagonal and plain. The plinth is the only part that appears older than yesterday. The "restoration" has certainly removed any trace of character the original object may have had. The medium-rise wooden dome cover is octagonal and has an orb-and-cross finial
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: pc
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean (16th-17th century?)
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831