Blackawton / Blackauton
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage - honeysuckle or palmetto
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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BBL01: design element - motifs - sawtooth
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BBU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06606BLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Fonts of this type at: Ashprington, Blackauton, Buckfastleigh, Denbury, Cornworthy, Dartmouth St. Petrock's, Paignton St Andrew's, Plymstock, South Brent, Thurlestone, Ugborough and Wolbororugh, all in Devon
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km W of Darmouth
Font Notes:
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Listed in Lysons (1806-1822) as a baptismal font "among many of circular form and an early age, enriched with various carved mouldings, wreaths, scrolls, or foliage". Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as a Norman font. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as having a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [...] is Norman with circular bowl; there is cable moulding round the top, and beneath, a band of carving. It is mounted on shaft and plinth." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916) as one of twelve Devon fonts of about the same period [Norman/Late Norman] decorated with a prominent band of honeysuckle or palmetto motif all around the basin [the twelve are: Ashprington, Blackauton, Buckfastleigh, Denbury, Cornworthy, Dartmouth St. Petrock's, Paignton St Andrew's, Plymstock, South Brent, Thurlestone, Ugborough and Wolbororugh, all in Devon], of which, Clarke adds, this is the secon largest after Paignton. Clarke (ibid.) states that with Blackauton "the honeysuckle font reaches the highest point of beauty". Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman, the usual type with palmette-frieze and cable-moulding above, but of unusually high quality."
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, sandstone (red)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 15 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53.75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 83.75 cm*
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47.5 - 55 cm*
Height of Central Column: 17 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 82.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: inlnown
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: Dome-shaped, with a ball finial (appears ill-fitted to the font in Stabb's photograph of ca.1908)
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 138
- 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. 315-316, 319 and pl. VII (opp. p. 314)
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 196
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50805] [accessed 17 January 2007]
- 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, vol. 6: p. cccxxx
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 53-54, 265
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 21 and pl. 21c