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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06636SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the Upper Plym Valley, about 19 km NNE of Plymouth, just SE of the Burrator Reservoir
Font Notes:
Noted in Worthy (1887): "The octagonal font is ornamented with shields, and with the falt four-leaved flower characteristic of the Decorated period of Pointed architecture". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
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
  • 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. 44 / [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]