Plympton

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: around the shields of the basin sides [cf. Font notes]

B02: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06596PLY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located just E of Plymouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. [NB: Cox & Harvey (ibid.) mention Plympton font as one of four in Devon engraved in Paley - this is an error: the font engraved in Paley is Plymstock, a Norman font, not Plympton]. This same source (ibid.) includes a description of the Perpendicular font: "At Plympton St. Mary, in the south of the county, the octagonal granite font is of effective though simple design and well moulded. The eight panels bear shields in quatrefoils, and the slender octagonal shaft is panelled with trefoil heads". Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, of the usual type."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952