Rattery / Rattary
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: incised over the ribbed background, without support
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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B02: design element - patterns - ribbed
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06622RAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at South Pool and Dittisham, among other fonts of the area
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A385, about 20 WWS of Torquay
Additional Comments: damaged font: the rim has been pared away
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". The 7th ed. of Lewis' Topographical Dicitionary of England [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.esp?compid=51231] [accessed 4 December 2006] notes a Norman font in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 196) as having a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Stabb (1908) as Norman. Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916): "The ornamentation of this font is exactly like Southpool [cf. Index entry for South Pool], so the same description will apply to it, but unfortunately it has suffered the loss of its round rim moulding which has been pared away. No dount it was in a bad condition, as the rim often is in the case of a soft stone, but the appearance of the font is affected very injuriously. The bowl and shaft are of red sandstone; the shaft is in two pieces; it has a moulding at both top and bottom. The plinth is an inverted cushion as at Southpool; the material is a grey stone." The font at Dittisham is also of similar decoration as those at South Pool and Rattery. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Norman, circualr, with a curious frieze of incised semicircles."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (red) -basin and shaft] -- grey stone [lower base]
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51.25 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Depth: 21.25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 31.25 - 38.75 cm*
Height of Central Column: 22.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916)]
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; p. 311, 319 and pl. V (opp. p. 311)
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part V", 50, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1918, pp. 583-587; p. 584, 587
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VI", 51, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1919, pp. 211-221; p. 212
- 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.esp?compid=51231] [accessed 4 December 2006]
- 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. 251
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 192