Chudleigh
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1993
Image Source: photograph taken 11 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1729255] [accessed 28 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1993
Image Source: photograph taken 11 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1729823] [accessed 28 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06609CHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [restored], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Martin
Church Address: Chudleigh, Devon, TQ13 0HY
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 12 km SSW of Exeter
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Additional Comments: altered font: restored ca. 1848
Font Notes:
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Oliver (1840-2) reports a circular granite font in this church. The Ecclesiologist (vol. 67, 1848: 401) reports the restoration of this church at the time, and notes that the "font of red granite is successfully restored" as well. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as having a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Stabb (1908): "There is a fine circular granite font on a pedestal of Ogwen limestone." In Pevsner (1952): "Font. Plain, big, circular, of granite."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 457187 5605964
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite [basin] -- limestone (Ogwen limestone) [base]
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern, probably Victorian
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 196
- Oliver, George, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon: being Observations on Several Churches in Devonshire, with some Memoranda for the History of Cornwall, Exeter: W.C. Featherstone, 1840-1842, p. 22
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 79
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 57