North Molton / North Moulton

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 January 2010 by David Cronin [www.flickr.com/photos/david_cronin/] [accessed 24 December 2011]

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B02: design element - patterns - tracery

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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BU02: design element - motifs - foliage

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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: notice that the roll moulding is still part of the basin block

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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UBF01: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: appears to hold a staff or such object

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UBF02: cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - holding object

Scene Description: the object(s) held have been broken off

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UBF03: cleric?

Scene Description: to the right of the bishop; wearing sacerdotal (?) robes; the objects held in his hands are broken off or very worn, probably a book in his right hand, and a staff in the left

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UBF04:

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UBF05: Apostle or saint - St. Thomas Beckett?

Scene Description: the figure holds a head in his right hand, and a staff or weapon in his left hand, rather like the common representation of St. Thomas of Canterbury [a Becket]. Also possible St. Denis

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UBF06: cleric? - holding book in his right hand

Scene Description: the lft hand is broken off

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UBF07: Apostle or saint? - unidentified

Scene Description: holding an unidentified object in his right hand

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: in 1982

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1725079] [accessed 24 December 2011]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: engraving from a May 1908 drawing by Allen T. Hussell, in Hussell (1910)

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: the baptismal font shown at the west end of the south aisle, by the south entranceway

Image Source: detail of an engraving from a May 1908 drawing by Allen T. Hussell, in Hussell (1910)

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view of font

Scene Description: in 1908

Image Source: engraving from a May 1908 drawing by Allen T. Hussell, in Hussell (1910)

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05542MOL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: North Molton, Devon EX36 3HX

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of South Molton, about 15 km EES of Barnstaple

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, by the S entranceway

Date: ca. 1480?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The baptismal fonts at 'Broad Hembury' [sic] and North Molton are described in Lysons (1806-1822) as "octagonal, very richly ornamented with quatrefoils, foliage and the figures of saints under niches." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a very rich octagonal font" in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated in Hussell (1910): "The stone font [...] is a fine example of Late Perpendicular work, about 1480 (Edward IV). It is octagonal and unusually high [sic], measuring 4 feet 4 inches from floor to top of basin, and 2 feet 5 inches across the top. The basin has panelled and traceried sides, with mouldings at the top and bottom, diminishing inwards to the coving, which is very boldly carved in conventional foliage. The stem and base are also octagonal, and the former has niches with carved figures of saints. This font is one of the best of its period in Devon, the different portions contrasting admirably with each other, and the workmanship being excellent." Pevsner (1952) notes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with small figures against the shaft, and pointed quatrefoils and panelling against the shallow bowl." The figures on the stem sides are damaged and rather worn, but they all appear to be male; one is clearly identifiable as a bishop; one other carries a head and perhaps a long weapon, and may represent either St. Denys or St. Thomas of Canterbury; several could be clerics; others apostles.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 443507 5656621

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 72.5 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 130 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in ft./in. in Hussell (1910: 105)]

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

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

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

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