Woodleigh

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10354WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Off the B3196, NW of Tiverton
Font Notes:
Listed in Lysons (1806-1822) as one of a group of square baptismal fonts in the county that are "for the most part supported by four pillars and a large pedestal in the centre". Noted in Stabb (1908): "The octagonal font is of granite, the panels of the bowl being divided into arches." In Pevsner: "Octagonal, Norman, with, on each panel, two very shallow blank pointed arches (cf. Kingsbridge)." [NB: if pointed arches, why Norman? Pevsner suggests a 13th-century date for the similar font at Kingsbridge]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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, vol. 6: p. cccxxxi
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 313
  • Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 260