Twitchen
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B01: design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: a band of, all around
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: the upper end of the ribs has been cut to show the concave ends
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for Clarke's details on the elongated shaft]
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for Clarke's details on the elongated shaft]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 10343TWI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located in the Exmoor National Park about 20 km NE of South Molton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: The font at Withypool, in nearby Somerset, has an identical bowl, according to Clarke [cf. FontNotes]
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". Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916): "This is a fine font, but the original proportions have been sacrficed by lengthening the shaft. The bowl is exactly like that of Withypool, a few miles away in the county of Somerset, which font remains in its primitive form. While Wythipool leaves nothing to be desired in the harmony of its proportions, the elongated shaft of Twitchen is a great mistake [...] The cylindrical shaft, as has been already mentioned, has been lengthened; the original part, of a grey stone like the bowl, is 7 inches deep, and the addition, which is of a reddish stone, 12 inches. There are some patches of new stone in the upper part of the bowl; the thickness is grooved to take a cover."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68.75 cm*
Basin Depth: 23.75 cm*
Basin Total Height: 37.5 cm*
Height of Central Column: 51.25 cm* [only about 20 cm of it may be original]
Font Height (less Plinth): 96.5 cm* [cf. FontNotes]
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. 304, 319 and ill. on p. opp. p. 303
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