Clyst St. George / Clyst Saint George / Clist St. George

INFORMATION

FontID: 06640CLY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located just E of Topsham, about 7 km ESE of Exeter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Pevsner (1952), however, notes: "Of the church, only the outer walls have survived the Second World War." Hoskins (1954) notes that the earlier church had been "rebuilt in 1851-9 and completely spoilt. It was gutted by fire in an air raid ill 1940 but has been again rebuilt (1952)". A photograph in the Dartmoor Archive [http://new.dartmoorarchive.org/image/da010402] [accessed 16 January 2009] shows the interior of the church (nave, looking east), but there is no font visible in it. [NB: the fabric of the original church is said to back to Anglo-Saxon times, but we have no evidence of any of the fonts in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Hoskins, William George, Devon, London: Collins, 1954
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952