Tiverton / Touretone / Tovretone

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Tiverton, St. Peter's Church: The font, base detail" -- the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5372889] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tiverton : St Peter's Church & Information Sign"

Image Source: digital photograph 8 January 2010 by Lewis Clarke [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1665733] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tiverton, St. Peter's Church: The nave"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5372848] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tiverton, St. Peter's Church: The font" -- the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5372887] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07098TIV

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: St Peter St, Tiverton EX16 6NU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1884 242991

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A3128, on the E banks of the E$xe river, about 20 km N of Exeter

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Historical Region: Hundred of Tiverton [in Domesday] formerly Somerset

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Church Notes: there may have been an earlier church of the one consecrated in 1073; re-built 15thC;

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There are three entries for this Tiverton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS9512/tiverton/] [accessed 20 August 2022] neither of which mentions priest or church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. There is no mention of a font in Pevsner (1952). Hoskins (1954) remarks that the new font is a Victorian intrusion. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS9541912840] notes the modern font in it "Parish church. Partly C15 but incorporating re-sited C12 doorway. south porch and chapel of 1517, porch rebuilt 1825, south chapel restored 1829 under the supervision of GA Boyce, with Watkins as mason; very substantial rebuilding, restoration and extension in 1853-1856 [...] elaborate 1909 font by Harbottle with octagonal bowl and stem decorated with saints under nodding ogee arches". The modern font is illustrated in the Tiverton St. Peter's entry in A Church Near You [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/image.php?id=4991] [accessed 17 March 2009].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.905556, -3.488889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 20″ N, 3° 29′ 20″ W

UTM: 30U 465625 5639436

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Hoskins, William George, Devon, London: Collins, 1954