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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 06641DOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km SW of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Stabb (1908), however, notes that: "The octagonal font is modern, on an apparently old base, with cable moulding." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1952).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916