Buckland Monachorum No. 2 / Bocheland
Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
Results: 6 records
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: several, framing the decorated band around the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - emblem? - letter T
Scene Description: on one of the shields
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - emblem? - head - grotesque
Scene Description: on one of the shields: the tongue sticking out
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: deeply carved, one on each of the panels of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: graded mouldings on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bora Gray, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2008 by Gora Gray [www.flickr.com/photos/gora_gray/2277558037/in/album-72157603946050527/] [accessed 2 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06639BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: The Village, Buckland Monachorum, Devon PL20 7N
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A386, 6-7 km SE of Tavistock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Roborough [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Buckland [Monachorum] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SX4968/buckland-monachorum/] [accessed 2 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is described in Worthy (1887): "The present [font] is of Perpendicular date, and stands at the western end of the south aisle. It is octagonal and adorned with Perpendicular flowers, human faces, and armorial shields within quatrefoils. The stem is ornamented with square headed trefoil recesses." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The octagonal font [...] is of granite, the sides of the bowl have shields, one having a grotesque face with the tongue out, and another the initial 'T'." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Perp[endicular], big, octagonal." The Buckland Monachorum web site [http://www.bucklandmonachorum.org.uk/Church.htm] [accessed 9 January 2009] mentions two fonts in this church; on the later font it notes: "There is a second font close by the church entrance, octagonal, and of a date corresponding with the age of the present building. It shows traces of colouring, and what appears to be a capital letter T on the side facing the Nave. A glance round the back will reveal two faces carved with their tongues out; possibly to discourage evil spirits." [cf. Index entry for Buckland Monachorum No. 1 for an earlier 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)]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 419853 5594313
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.495302, -4.129994
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 29′ 43.09″ N, 4° 7′ 47.98″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 197
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 43 and pl. 43b
- 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. 114 / [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]