Sidbury nr. Honiton No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 09320SID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles] & St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A-375, 10 km S of Honiton
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cave & Blakiston (1930) inform that, during his to this church on 13 July 1301, Bitton, bishop of Exeter, refers to the presence of a "font properly provided with a lock", which would date to the font at least that early. The survival of the old font lock is noted in Cautley (1982). Hoskins (1954) writes of the original church: "The structural history of the Norman and later church may be summarised as follows: (a) an early 12th century church of nave and chancel only, of which considerable parts remain; (b) a W. tower and N. and S. aisles added late in the 12th century; (c) the chancel lengthened c. 1260-80, and N. an d S. transepts either added or remodelled." The font seen by Bishop Bitton must have been the original one from the Norman church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

LID INFORMATION

Date: 12-13th century?
Notes: [cf. FontNnotes regarding a report of cover on 1301]

REFERENCES

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Cave, D.C.A, A Short History of Sidbury Church, 1930
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Hoskins, William George, Devon, London: Collins, 1954