Exeter No. 4 / Execestre / Exonia

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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: a band, all around the basin

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 September 2013 by Neil Owen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3748782] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: framing the band of bead motif, all around the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Owen, 2013

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 September 2013 by Neil Owen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3748782] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2011

Image Source: digita photograph taken 13 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Church_of_St_Pancras,_Exeter_(5542984239).jpg] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Drayton, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2009 by Robin Drayton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1322133] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dedicated to the teenage martyr, St Pancras, the church is one of the oldest Christian sites in England. In spite of its small size it has both a chancel and a nave."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2011

Image Source: digita photograph taken 13 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Church_of_St_Pancras,_Exeter.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: Source caption: "The east end of this old church, based on what is thought to have been a Roman Christian church of the fourth century. The actual version seen here is dated from 1191, with additions and renovations in the nineteenth. Oddly, this part of the St Pancras is at a slightly different alignment to the rest of it."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Owen, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2013 by Neil Owen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3748798] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Pancras - west end. The old church is a mere 46' by 16' (14x5m) and can be traced back in its present construction to 1191."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Owen, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2013 by Neil Owen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3748824] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005

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

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "The font of St Pancras. This font is the city's oldest known - from 1191 - and is a simple circular affair with pellet mouldings around the outside. Unfortunately, the church had a long history of disuse and neglect; in 1831 attempts were made to restore it to its former glory, but the work on the font tended to damage the delicate features."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Owen, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2013 by Neil Owen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3748782] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05256EXE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Pancras
Church Patron Saints: St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]
Church Location: Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter EX4 3HP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1392 833485
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: The church is located in the middle of the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Wonford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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).
Church Notes: present church chiefly 13thC
There are eighteen entries for Exeter [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX9292/exeter/] [accessed 13 May 2018], of which two mention a church in it. Baptismal font that is mentioned in Bond (1908) only with regards to its shape: "straight-sided, but bucket-shaped", which is not quite accurate. Noted in Stabb 1908): "the font [...] is probably the oldest in Exeter. It is massive and circular, with a decoration of pellet moulding round the top; it has been restored by scraping it as smooth as possible, so removing the appearance of the antiquity it undoubtedly has." Described in Clarke (1913): "Tub-shape; igher in proportions to its width than the average tub-font. It is made of two blocks of stone, cemented together with lead. There are two roll-and-hollow mouldings near the top, separated by a row of squared pellets, which rather suggest incipient nail-head ornament. The font bears marks of axe-dressing, but the surface of the stone as far as the lead junction is coated with paint, which fills up the surface marks, and is a great disfigurement. The man with the paint-pot in an excess of misplaced zeal has even bestowed a coat of paint on the lead lining." [Clarke (ibid.) mentions an illustration of this font in the 'Exeter Churches' appendix volume of 'Devon Notes and Queries', vol. V, p. 135]. In Pevsner (1952): "Font. Most elementary Norman." The entry for this church in Historic England [List entry Number: 1222964] reports a Norman font in it, "a circular, tapering C12 font with a band of beaded ornament round the middle of the bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.7238, -3.5326
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43′ 25.68″ N, 3° 31′ 57.36″ W
UTM: 30U 462406 5619246

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 47.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 62.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 21.25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 77.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1913)]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part I", 45, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1913, pp. 314-329; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916