Bridgerule / Bridge-Reginald / Bridgerenald / Bridgerael / Brige / Ponsrowald
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Devon Churches/Bridgerule Church Devon - St. Bridget/index.htm] [accessed 6 May 2014]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "St Bridget's Church and Church Cottage. As in many Devon and Cornish parishes the Church Town at Bridgerule, comprising the ancient church and a few nearby houses, stands some distance outside the village. This historic photograph was taken by the grandson of the Revd Frank Hawker Kingdon who was Vicar of the parish for seventy years from 1888-1958."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sinclair Aytoun, 1945
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by Sinclair Aytoun [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1340809] [accessed 5 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sinclair Aytoun, 1945
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by Sinclair Aytoun [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/685467] [accessed 5 May 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09957BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bridget
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Church Address: Bridgerule, Devon EX22 7EL
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3254, 15 km NNW of Launceston, 2 km from the Cornish border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Black Torrington [part in the Hundred of Stratton]
Additional Comments: recycled font? may have been re-used pagan object
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bridgerule [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SS2702/bridgerule/] [accessed 5 May 2014], but it reports neither church nor cleric in it. The present baptismal font here is described and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [...] is of unusual shape, it is formed of one large block of stone. It is not quite circular as the west side is flatter than the east; at the base a piece appears to have been cut out, and at a later period filled in again, possibly at one time it was against a pillar." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1913) as "a valuable example of the font in its simplest form; just a bowl hollowed out in a block of granite", and points out that "the irregular outline of the exterior suggests that the stone had been dressed and used for some purpose before it was hollowed to make a font [...] It may have been a sacred stone of pagan days, applied, in accordance with the usual practice of early missionaries, to Christian use. A damaged portion at the foot has been repaired with cement; the font stands on a modern platform, plain, with a flat chamfer." Described in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Very crude Norman, egg-cup-shaped bowl and shaft of one piece without articulation."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 398508 5628845
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.802445, -4.44031
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 48′ 8.8″ N, 4° 26′ 25.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round/oval
Basin Exterior Shape: round/oval
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 (62.5 min.) cm*
Basin Depth: 21.25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *Clarke (1913: 329)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round platform with thick scroll ribs atop
REFERENCES
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part I", 45, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1913, pp. 314-329; p. 319-320, 329 and ill. on p. opposite p. 319
- Hitchings, Fortescue, The History of Cornwall, from the earliest records and traditions to the present time, Helston: William Penaluna, 1824, vol. 2: 120-121
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 62
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 34 and pl. 34b