Sheepstor

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06636SHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located in the Upper Plym Valley, about 19 km NNE of Plymouth, just SE of the Burrator Reservoir
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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
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