Nymet Rowland / Limet / Nymett-Rowland

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design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: or wheat-ear ornament

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Ian, Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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design element - motifs - concentric semi-circles

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes for details od re-carving and dating issues]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes for details od re-carving and dating issues]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle

Scene Description: others on other sides are different

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes for details od re-carving and dating issues]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)

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design element - motifs - leaf - oak?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes for details od re-carving and dating issues]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Ian, Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle

Scene Description: one such seen here on the left [cf. FontNotes for details od re-carving and dating issues]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Ian, Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by Ian, Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the old basin partially in the bottom-left corner of the image

Image Source: digital photograph by Ian, Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the old font is partially visible at the far [west] end, opposite the south entranceway into the nave

Image Source: digital photograph by Ian, Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: this side of the font shows the damage related to the metal anchorage spot in the upper rim for an old cover

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Ian, Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the inner basin lining and the damage to the upper rim are visible here

Image Source: digital photograph 29 June 2014 by Derek Harper [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4312143] [accessed 16 February 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10340NYM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: St Bartholomew, Nymet Rowland, Crediton EX17 6AP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1363 877221

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A377, just W of Lapford, 7 km SSE Chumleigh, 16 km NW of Crediton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Historical Region: North Tawton [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [altered], Norman [altered?]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ian, of the Cornish Churches Web Site [www.cornishchurches.com], for his photograph of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Nymet [Rowland] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS7108/nymet-rowland/] [accessed 16 February 2024] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. 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". Described and illustrated in Clarke (1913), who identifies a range of floral and foliage motifs on the basin sides, "a broad of fillet [...] rather suggesting wheat-ear ornament"; below the middle, "concentric half-circles [...], circles enclosing stars and the Greek cross, all incised". Clarke (ibid.) remarks on the difference in skill between some of the motifs: "The carved band is well executed, and the lozenges are fairly regular, but the flowers are evidently the work of an unskilful hand, and may have been added at a later date." [NB: at least one of the motifs is a large fleur-de-lis of later date]. Clarke further notes that the basin well is lead-lined, and that the octagonal plinth is modern. Pevsner (1952) notes: "Font. Norman, of cup shape, with cable and concentric semicircles as decoration on the shaft; the bowl completely plain" [NB: which it is not, unless the present incisions were made after Pevsner's ca. 1952 visit]. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions an original font [...] stil in place" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 28 September 2004, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS7111208212] notes: "Parish church. C12 origins, late C15-early C16 tower and north aisle, some improvements associated with a 1636 datestone, restored by Halls of Dolton in 1889 [...] The Beerstone font is a Norman girdled tub. The girdle is enriched with a band of chevrons and below are incised semicircles between which are stars and crosses. Upon the bowl are inscribed rude representations of leaves and fleur-de-lys at irregular intervals; possibly secondary." The plinth is modern. There is no cover present but damage from the anchorings of an old cover are evident on the upper rim of the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.85891, -3.83267

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 32.08″ N, 3° 49′ 57.61″ W

UTM: 30U 441395 5634466

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (beerstone)

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*

Basin Depth: 20 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 80 cm [65 + 15 cm of plinth]

Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1913: 329)]

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; 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, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952