Manaton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 10344MAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century?, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Winifred
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Winefride [aka Winifred, Wenefred, Wenefreda, Gwenfrewi]
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A382, just W of Lustleigh, about 20 km SW of Exeter, in the NW area of the Dartmoor National Park
Font Notes:
The Dartmoor Press Online Magazine [www.dartmoorpress.clara.net] edition updated on 20th October 2002 includes an article by Mike Brown about St Winifred's Church in Manaton. The article reproduces a memorandum from the parish register relating the events of 13th December 1779, when a violent storm damaged many parts of the church edifice. One of the areas affected was the location of the font: "A small stone was carried from ye window to ye west end 54 feet, where it broke the plaistering of ye wall & ye cover of ye font". There was no report of damage to the font when noted in Stabb (1908): "the font old but very plain." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1952)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 155