Sutcombe

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B01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the sides, or, more accurately the long sides of the underbowl

Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

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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

Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)

LB02: symbol - shield - blank - 7?

Scene Description: on the sides of the stem, except the one against the pillar

Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)

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Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)

INFORMATION

FontID: 06631SUT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located just W of the A388, about 30 km N of Launceston

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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)]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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)]

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952

Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916