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B01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: on the sides, or, more accurately the long sides of the underbowl
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LB01: design element - architectural - window - round - 7?
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem, except the one against the pillar
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LB02: symbol - shield - blank - 7?
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem, except the one against the pillar
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Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06631SUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A388, about 30 km N of Launceston
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 196) as having a baptismal font of the 15th century made of granite. Stabb (1908) writes: "The font [...] which appears to be late Perpendicular in date, is octagonal in shape, and it most probably stands in its original position, as part of the pillar against which it is placed has been placed has been cut away to allow for the projection of the upper part of the bowl. There are the holes in the rim of the bowl in which the hinges of the original cover were fixed." Pevsner (1952) notes: "Font. Octagonal, granite, Perp, with elementary designs." [We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908)]
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, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: holes in the rim of the basin from the old cover staples
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 196
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 147
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 225 and pl. 225b