Denbury
Image copyright © John G. Hall, 2004
Permission received (e-mail of 27 April 2004)
Results: 6 records
B01:
design element - motifs - foliage - honeysuckle or palmetto
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Seraley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
Copyright Instructions: PD
BBU01:
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Seraley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB01:
design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Seraley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Seraley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John G. Hall, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in http://denbury.net/images/jghall/font.html
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 27 April 2004)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John G. Hall, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in http://denbury.net/images/jghall/font.html
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 27 April 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09464DEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Newton Abbot, 15-20 km WNW of Torquay
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Early English?
Cognate Fonts: Fonts of this type at: Ashprington, Blackauton, Buckfastleigh, Denbury, Cornworthy, Dartmouth St. Petrock's, Paignton St Andrew's, Plymstock, South Brent, Thurlestone, Ugborough and Wolbororugh, all in Devon
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Bernie Duggan, of the Denbury Archive Group, for the photographs of this font and church.
Baptismal font noted in Stabb (1908): "There is a Norman font, with a carved band round the edge of the bowl; it most probably had cable moulding around the base of the bowl and the bottom of the shaft, but if it had, it has now been scraped smooth." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916): "The rim has a round moulding only, and no cable. Below this is a band of honeysuckle 6 inches deep; the rest of the bowl is plain. Here in a very pronounced way we notice how the Romanesque font is leading to the more severe Early English type. The honeysuckle has worked its way to the top of the bowl, and is nothing but a band covering less than a third of the depth. There is a round moulding between bowl and shaft, and a similar one at the foot of the shaft. The base is a combination of of base and plinth; the lower portion has the corners chamfered off a square, higher up it becomes circular, flattened at the cardinal points. Above is a base ring, also flattened, but not so much. The font is entirely of red sandstone". Described and illustrated in John G. Hall's 'Notes on Denbury' (1931-1932) [cf. AuthorNotes below] as a baptismal font of the Early English period, although acknowledeged by others as late-Norman, being the surviving font of the 12th-century church on this site. In Pevsner (1952): "Of pink sandstone, circular, Norman, with palmette decoration."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone (red)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 61.25 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76.25 cm*
Basin Depth: 37.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47.5 - 50 cm*
Height of Central Column: 17.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96.25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, with metal reinforcements and handle
REFERENCES
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IV", 48, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1916, pp. 302-319; r["References"]
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; r["References"]
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
