East Teignmouth
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design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - quatrefoil
INFORMATION
FontID: 06643TEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 13 km N of Torquay
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Described in Lysons (1806-1822) as an octagonal baptismal font mounted on pillars, "enriched with quatrefoils, &c. in panels, and foliage." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 197) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. [cf. Index entry for Branscombe, Devon, for a 15th-century stone basin "offered as a gift by East Teignmouth parish"]
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
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822