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B01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: right around the centre of the basin isdes
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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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 of an illustration in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05526POL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Little Billing, East Challow, Stretton Sugwas
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5-10 km north of Exeter, just west of the M5
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as "simply a stone bucket with a pair of roll-mouldings, set close together, encircling it midway". Noted in Stabb (1908): "The font [...] is very plain, simply a stone bucket encircled midway by a couple of roll mouldings; it stands on a circular base." Clarke (1913) informs that "it is made of the red stone of the district, and raised on a high, circular plinth of the same stone (modern) with a sloping chamfer. The drain is not in the centre, but half-way towards the side." In Pevsner (1952) as "Plainest Norman".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for supplting us with the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [red stone of the district]
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: off-centre hole in basin
Rim Thickness: 4 - 4.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53.75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 62.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 12.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 62.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements in inches in Clarke (1913: 329)]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 47 and ill. on p. 46
- 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; p. 322-323, 329
- 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; p. [226]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 247
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 188 and pl. 188b
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 25