Meavy / Metwi

Results: 2 records

B01: coat of arms - sword in bend

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: coat of arms - keys in saltire

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06635MEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located in the Upper Plym Valley, about 18 km NNE of Plymouth, just SW of the Burrator Reservoir
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century / 17th century, Decorated? / Restoration?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Described in Worthy (1887): "The font, of Decorated date, is octagonal, and is ornamented with shields charged with the sword in bend, and the keys in saltire." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Octagonal, large, the decoration may be elementary C17." The Richard A. Derrick web site [http://www.rca.ukhq.co.uk/temples/church/dev-meavy-s.html] [accessed 4 March 2009] has the font here as 15th-century and "made of Roborough Down stone", though the original church "was consecrated in 1122" [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Roborough Down stone [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Worthy, Charles, Devonshire parishes, or the antiquities, heraldry and family history of twenty-eight parishes in the Archdeaconry of Totnes, Exeter; London: William Pollard; George Redway, 1887