Cheriton Bishop / Ceritone
Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: a band of; irregularly rendered holed beads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2008
Image Source: edited detail foa digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2008
Image Source: edited detail foa digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - chevron
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2008
Image Source: edited detail foa digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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design element - patterns - fluted (or blind arcade of round arches)
Scene Description: the pattern looks like an arcade, but it was more likely intended as the fluting common in other fonts of the area, a form of concave rib ornamentation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2008
Image Source: edited detail foa digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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design element - patterns - fluted (or reversed blind arcade of round arches)
Scene Description: the pattern looks like the mirror image of an arcade, the motif above the chevron moulding, but it was more likely intended as the fluting comon in other fonts of the area, a form of concave rib ornamentation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2008
Image Source: edited detail foa digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description:
INT E WITH FONT digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018] Source caption: "Cheriton Bishop: interior of St Marys church The dedication was to St Michael before the reformation. With a granite arcade to the north aisle, where a section of the medieval rood screen has survived".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2010 by Roger Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1988046] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cheriton Bishop: interior of St Marys church The dedication was to St Michael before the reformation. With a granite arcade to the north aisle, where a section of the medieval rood screen has survived".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1914)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: Drawing by Robin Ollington, in Drake (2002)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cover is semi-buried in the floral arrangement on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2008
Image Source: edited detail foa digital photograph taken 1 October 2008 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991647] [accessed 18 April 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 06608CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Cheriton Bishop, Devon EX6 6HY , UK -- Tel.: (01647) 24119
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A30, 15 km W of Exeter
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Wonford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for Cheriton [Bishop] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SX7793/cheriton-bishop/] [accessed 18 April 2018], but it mentions neither clric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church [NB: a typographical error in C&H has transposed the names as "Crediton Bishop" and "Cheriton", instead of the actual ones Cheriton Bishop and Crediton]. Described in Stabb (1908): "The font is Norman, the top has been restored with cement, and the inside is lined with mosaic cubes, instead of lead. The whole of the bowl is carved, and there is moulding round the waist; below this the font expands to the base, the lower portion has a kind of elongated scallop pattern." Described in Cresswell (1912): "Evidences of an earlier building are afforded by the Norman circular, curiously crooked [?] ornamented with foliage and plait moulding. This was the font of the church of 1265". Listed in Clarke (1913) and (1914) as a "girdled tub, profusely ornamented." The basin decorative plan is much like others in the area (Exeter St Mary Steps', etc.): broad foliage band, row of bead motif, row of blind arcade ot fluted pattern, broad moulding, with chevron in this case, but of a rather uneven execution. The inside of the basin has, as Clarke points out, "an incongruous lining of red, yellow, and black pottery cubes, arranged in mosaic patterns". The upper rim has been covered in modern cement as if to cover the damage to that area. Below the centre ring is a mirror image of the arcade/fluting pattern above, then plain all the way down to the bottom. The granite plinth is modern. Noted in Pevsner (1952) as Norman. In Drake (2002).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.72872,
-3.7394
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 43′ 43.39″ N,
3° 44′ 21.84″ W
UTM: 30U 447815 5619919
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: [tiled / mosaic lining -- cf. FontNotes for details]
Rim Thickness: 8.5-9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 42.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 25 cm*
Height of Base: 27.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 52.5 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1914: 436)
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
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"]
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part II", 46, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1914, pp. 428-435; r["References"]
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; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
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