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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06641DOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 16th century[base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km SW of Exeter
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, p. 197
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 85