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Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - chevron
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)
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B02: design element - motifs - cone
Scene Description: several small ones next to the chevrons
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)
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B03: symbol - cross?
Scene Description: on the north side; described in Clarke as a multiple cross
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Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: a band of, like herring-bone
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)
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BBU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: at the upper end of the basin side
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: note the 'trimming' of the left side of the plinth to accommodate the pew
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Clarke (1913)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10342HON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the B3219, off the A3072, 11-12 km NE of Okehampton
Additional Comments: damaged font: MUST USE: part of the plinth cut off to accommodate a wooden pew!
Font Notes:
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Listed in Lysons (1806-1822) as one of a group of square baptismal fonts in the county. Noted and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [plate 126c] is of Norman date, a square top, rounded at one corner, and shaft resting on plinth; on the north side of the shaft is carved zigzag, on the east and south sides cable moulding." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1913): "a tub-font of unusual design, square, the four sides tapering towards the base. It has two bands of ornament, covering the sides more than half-way down. At the top are two half-round mouldings set close together. The ornamental band below consists mainly of groups of chevrons and narrow cones; on the north side is a medallion enclsing a multiple cross. Below, between two bold mouldings, is a band of alternating chevrons, a form of herring-bone. It has a square basin, unlined. The base is circular; the upper surface projects beyond the font, but is neither moulded not chamfered. Part of it has been cut away to accommodate a pew." Described in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Norman, circular, coarse zigzag and cable decoration." A Jacobean font cover is noted in Betjeman (1958) and illustrated in Stabb (1908). [We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908)]
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
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 45 x 33.75 cm* [given as inside diameter]
Diameter (includes rim): 87.5 cm* [given as outside diameter]
Basin Depth: 20 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 62.5 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 77.5 cm [62.5 + 15 cm plinth]
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1913: 329) -- the diameter measurements correspond to those given in Clarke in inches]
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean / 17th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shaped, with ball finial
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 I", 45, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1913, pp. 314-329; p. 324-325, 329 and ill. opp. p. 328
- 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, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 102-103
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 126 and pl. 126c