Newton Tracey / Newentone
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Results: 7 records
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: stiff-leaf decoration (a/p Pevsner)
design element - motifs - rope moulding
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger A Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2019 by Roger A Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6176476] [accessed 18 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger A Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2019 by Roger A Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6176475] [accessed 18 August 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger A Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2019 by Roger A Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6176484] [accessed 18 August 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: showing the font in the southwest corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger A Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2019 by Roger A Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6176487] [accessed 18 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger A Smith, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 June 2019 by Roger A Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6176487] [accessed 18 August 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10359NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas of Caterbury
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Location: 3 Barton Cottages, Newton Tracey, Barnstaple EX31 3PL, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3232, 5 km from Barnstaple
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Fremington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Newton [Tracey] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS5226/newton-tracey/] [accessed 18 August 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Font here described in Lysons (1806-1822) as of a group of "square Saxon fonts on circular pillars, or pedestals." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. C13 with elaborate stiff-leaf decoration and cable moulding at the waist." The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/grants/visit/st-thomas-a-becket-newton-tracey-ex31-3pl/] [accessed 18 August 2019] notes: "13th century small parish church remodelled in 15th century when the tower was added. Restored 1867-8 by R. D. Gould, when the 13th century north aisle was entirely rebuilt. Some medieval Barnstaple floor tiles remain in north aisle. 13th century font."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.022418, -4.09818
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 20.71″ N, 4° 5′ 53.45″ W
UTM: 30U 422979 5652892
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; modern
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