Loddiswell
Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - volute
Scene Description: in pairs
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BBU01: design element - motifs - X in a square (nail-head, etc.)
Scene Description: a band all around
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BS01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: two- and three-leaf motifs
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base
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LB02: design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the round volume of the lower base
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10339LOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3196, 5-6 km N of Kingsbridge
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". Noted with an illustration as a font of the 12th century in Stabb (1908). Clarke (1916) describes it as a "font with volutes [...] A very fine example", and adds that "this font cannot be included in any definite group, as there is no other at all like it", a font, Clarke suggests, that may belong somewhere between the 'fluted-bowl' font and th 'honeysucle' font. Clarke (ibid.) further identifies the materials as red sandstone for the basin, and polyphant stone for the stem and lower base. The basin is roughly hemispherical; the upper side is decorated with a band of 'Norman star' [X in a rectangular frame, or, nail-head motif], below which are pairs of volutes or scrolls, the spandrels filled with trefoil or pairs of leaves; below the volutes is a row of saw-tooth all around; the cylindrical stem of the base has a roll moulding at either end; the lower base is circular to square, the upper round volume with spurs at 90-degree angles. Two-step plinth, square with chamfered corners. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Small, Norman, circular with a frieze of palmettes standing up in a way different from the usual type, and a narrow band of saltire crosses above."
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).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (red) [basin] -- polyphant stone [base]
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 7 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68.75 cm*
Basin Depth: 27.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 42.5 cm*
Height of Central Column: 26.25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75.6 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319)]
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; p. 312 and pl. VI (opp. p. 312)
- 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. 221
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part V", 50, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1918, pp. 583-587; p. [583]
- 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. 198
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 148 and pl. 148b