Totnes / Totenais / Totton
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 December 2021)
Results: 11 records
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 December 2021)
design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rood screen, St Mary's Church, Totnes. One unusual feature of this church is the rood screen which dates from the mid 15th century and stretches right across the nave and aisles. Traditionally these rood screens were carved from wood but this one is ornately worked stone with miniature window-tracery in the upper part of the screen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kate Jewell, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2008 by Kate Jewell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/922417] [accessed 23 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Totnes. The ornate rood screen made with stone from the Beer quarries in East Devon was added around 1462 when this church underwent major rebuilding between 1432 and 1462."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kate Jewell, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2008 by Kate Jewell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/922403] [accessed 23 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: showing the great stone screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1982
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1724495] [accessed 23 March 2015]
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view of cover - finial
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 December 2021)
view of font
Scene Description: notice that Cotton (1850) and Andre (1883) use the same engraving to illustrate this font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cotton (1850)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 December 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 06644TOT
Church/Chapel: Parish and Priory Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: High St, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5NN, UK -- Tel.: 01803 865615
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A385, about 15 km SW of Torquay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Plymouth
Historical Region: Hundred of Chillington [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1450?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
There is an entry for Totnes [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SX8060/totnes/] [accessed 23 March 2015] but no mention of a cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Cotton (1850): "The Font is good, of early perpendicular character, octangular with deeply foliated quatrefoils on each face; but placed entirely out of sight, behind sundry boarded obstructions in the tower." Noted and illustrated in Andre (1883) [NB: the illustration is identical in both sources]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Stabb (1908) notes: "The font is of the same date as the pulpit and screen", both of which he dates to 1450. In Pevsner (1952): "The usual octagonal C15 type, except that the quatrefoil panels are rather more richly cusped." The wooden cover is an octagonal dome with a pine cone and dove finial; although there is no lifting apparatus in place now the finial has a metal hook in place to be used with for lifting.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.431826,
-3.687985
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 25′ 54.58″ N,
3° 41′ 16.75″ W
UTM: 30U 451137 5586871
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Victorian?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: none present but the finial has a metal hook attachment
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cotton, William, A graphic and historical sketch of the antiquities of Totnes, London; [et al.]: Longman and Company; [et al.], 1850
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916