Ermington
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Permission received (e-mail of 28 January 2009)
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sheila Jones, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2001 by Sheila Jones [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynnash/Intro.htm] [accessed 27 January 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 28 January 2009)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sarah Charlesworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2008 by Sarah Charlesworth [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1082774] [accessed 28 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font and cover on the right-hand side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sheila Jones, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2001 by Sheila Jones [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynnash/Intro.htm] [accessed 27 January 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 28 January 2009)
view of church interior - looking southwest
Scene Description: the font and cover at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sheila Jones, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2001 by Sheila Jones [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynnash/Intro.htm] [accessed 27 January 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 28 January 2009)
view of fragment
Scene Description: the basin bottom fragment of the Norman font appears on the left side, leaning against the wall, by the side of the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sheila Jones, 2001
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2001 by Sheila Jones [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynnash/Intro.htm] [accessed 27 January 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 28 January 2009)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06614ERM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [fragment] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A3121, 3 km NW of Modbury, about 18 km ESE of Plymouth
Additional Comments: fragment of a font / request for permit sent to Sheila Jones
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "a curious Norman font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as having a baptismal font of the Norman period. Stabb (1908) writes: "The pulpit and font cover are modern, the font is Norman." Described in Lyn Nash (OPC for Ermington [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynnash/Intro.htm] [accessed 27 January 2009]: "To the left of the door as you enter is the font. This is a fairly substantial stone font. A stone cover which looks as if it is the original, rests on the floor and the font itself is now capped with an ornate wooden carved pinnacle cover, presumably late Victorian". [NB: what Lyn Nash identifies as a "stone cover which looks as if it is the original" is actually all that remains of the original Norman font; it is the bottom of the old basin with clearly marked areas where the central shaft, the central drain and the four outer colonnettes were; the sides proper have disappeared, as probably have the five supports and the original lower base of what appears to have been a 'table-top' Norman font; the actual font with its tall-ish wooden cover are both modern]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Sheila Jones for her photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
REFERENCES
- 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=50750] [accessed 8 January 2007]
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 94