Harberton
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 10
Scene Description: some of them are damaged at the top, at the repaired rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Searley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
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BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Searley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
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BU01: design element - patterns - fluted - double fluting
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Image Source: Clarke (1916)
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: This moulding is part of the underbowl.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Searley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.W. Searley, 1916
Image Source: Clarke (1916)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10338HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, to the left of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off A381, 4-5 SW of Totnes
Font Notes:
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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". White's Gazetteer of 1850 has it as "Anglo-Norman". Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916): "A very beautiful font; the ornament is almost pure Byzantine. It is of red sandstone; the bowl, unusually deep, is raised on a low circular shaft, with a modern base. The bowl is ornamented by ten medallions, star pattern; below the medallions is a cable, below again a row of double flutings, one above the other. Then there is a round moulding which is not a necking to the shaft, but rather the foot of the bowl. The modern base [...]. The rim [of the bowl] has had to be patched in four places, probably where the staples of the cover were wrenched away, taking pieces of stone with them. Also two of the medallions have been cemented where they were cracked. The bowl has a lead lining." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman with a frieze of rosettes and below first a band of cable and then a frieze of upright petals." In Hoskins (1954): "The font is very beautiful Norman work, of red sandstone, with almost pure Byzantine ornament." The town of Harberton [http://fp.jculf.plus.com/main.htm] informs that this font is one of the items remaining from the original church: a girdle font -one in 12 in Devon according to the site- in reference to the rope moulding that 'tightens' its middle; made of sandstone; wooden cover is 19th-century.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (red)
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, goblet-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51.25 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 25.6 cm*
Basin Total Height: 52.5 cm*
Height of Central Column: 17.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 141
- 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; p. 305, 319 and ill. on p. opp. p. 305
- 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; p. 222
- Hoskins, William George, Devon, London: Collins, 1954, [cited in http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/110538/1.html [accessed 2 February 2009]]
- 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, vol. 6: p. cccxxx
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 175
- White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire, [s.l.]: [Printed for the author], 1850, [unknown / not recorded]