Dartmouth No. 1, Warfleet

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design element - motifs - foliage - honeysuckle or palmette

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Warfleet - St Petrox Church. First recorded in 1192, St Petrox is the oldest of Dartmouth's three parish churches. It is located next to Dartmouth Castle, overlooking the mouth of the River Dart."

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: showing the font towards the back [west] of the centre aisle

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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)

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view of font

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Scene Description: looking west into the tower space

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view of font and cover in context - east side

Scene Description: the bluish-colour section of the pedestal base may be a modern [pre-1916?] replacement

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Scene Description: looking east towards the altar

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10337DAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Petrock / Petrox

Church Patron Saints: St. Petroc [aka Pedrog, Perreux, Petrock]

Church Location: S W Coast Path, Dartmouth TQ6 0JN, UK -- Tel.: +44 1803 833923

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located next to Darmouth Castle, off the A3122, 40 km S of Exeter

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

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 Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and image from Stabb (1908). We are also grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church, font and stoup

Church Notes: first documented 1192

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entries found for Warfleet or Dartmouth in the Domesday survey. Listed in Lysons (1806-1822) as a baptismal font "among many of circular form and an early age, enriched with various carved mouldings, wreaths, scrolls, or foliage". Noted and illustrated in Stabb: "In the tower is a circular Norman font [plate 78a] of the type common in the neighbourhood." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916) as one of twelve Devon fonts of about the same period [Norman/Late Norman] decorated with a prominent band of honeysuckle or palmetto motif all around the basin [the twelve are: Ashprington, Blackauton, Buckfastleigh, Denbury, Cornworthy, Dartmouth St. Petrock's, Paignton St Andrew's, Plymstock, South Brent, Thurlestone, Ugborough and Wolbororugh, all in Devon]. This font, adds Clarke (ibid.), "takes us yet another step of departure from the perfect type of honeysuckle font; the cable below the rim has followed the saw-tooth and disappeared, replaced by a round moulding, and the band of honeysuckle is the sole ornament. The bowl is of red sandstone; it bears traces of whitewash. At the rim it is cut to octagon shape to the depth of 1 1/2 inches. Probably the rim was damaged as in the case of nearly all the red sandstone fonts, and this curious method of trimmimng it was adopted. I have not found it in any other font. The shaft and plinth are of greyish stone. The bowl is different in outline from the others in the group, as it spreads more towards the rim, the shaft is short and thick. The balance of form is excellent." Noted in Pevsner (1952).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.342028, -3.565889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 20′ 31.3″ N, 3° 33′ 57.2″ W

UTM: 30U 459733 5576813

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (red) [basin only] -- grey stone [shaft and base]

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 13 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 53.75 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 47.5 - 50 cm*

Height of Central Column: 21.25 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 82.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319)]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat octagonal platform with four scroll ribs around a central pivot; damaged?

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"]

Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822

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