Bradford / Bradford nr. Hatherleigh
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B01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: or concave ribbing, all around
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05145BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NW of Hatherleigh, in the Torridge valley
Font Notes:
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Described in Bond (1908) simply as an oval font. Described and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [...] is worthy of notice, instead of being square or round in shape as is usually the case, the bowl is oval, this is the only instance I know of in Devonshire of a font with an oval bowl." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916) as a baptismal font consisting of a shallow oval basin decorated with the pattern she calls "fluted" common to several other fonts in the area [cf. Index entries for Clayhanger, Parkham, etc.]. Clarke (ibid.) further remarks that in this basin the "dressing is vertical; this is unusual in a font, where it is generally diagonal. The font has no cable or chevron, only a round moulding at the rim. It is made of local stone which has a general tint of grey with reddish patches, and if it had never been whitewashed the colour would have been beautiful. The bowl is not lined." Described in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman, with small fluted bowl." [We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908)]
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).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [Devonian stone]
Font Shape: oval, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 5.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 50 - 41.25 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 61.25 - 52.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 16.25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 22.5 - 18.75 cm*
Height of Central Column: 56.25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319)]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 58
- 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; p. 310, 319 and pl. IV (opp. p. 309)
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 57
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 26 and pl. 26b