Abbotskerswell / Abbot's Kerswell

INFORMATION

FontID: 09322ABB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A381, jus S of Newton Abbot
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Norman
Listed in Stabb's 'Some Old Devon Churches' (1908) as a Norman font. Davies (1962: 70) [after Coulton (1936, vol. II: 451)] informs that "In 1342 a visitation of the Totnes Archdeaconry revealed that [...] at Abbot's Kerswell 'the font is not covered nor locked'".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Coulton, George Gordon, Five Centuries of Religion, 1936
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916