Meavy / Metwi

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06635MEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 17th century, Decorated? / Restoration?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the Upper Plym Valley, about 18 km NNE of Plymouth, just SW of the Burrator Reservoir
Additional Comments: dsiappeared font?
Font Notes:
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, p. 196
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 205
  • 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, p. 142 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=sgcVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=lamerton+church+font&source=bl&ots=7tuSX1lDWd&sig=AP8wFkxEZsyUbnUi_FgyE5b1S6g&hl=en&ei=2xGkSbvmNIS6nQfnxP2qBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA19,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]