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Image copyright © Adrian Parry, 2004
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Parry, 2004
Image Source: Adrian Parry [adrian_parry@lineone.net
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author (email of 1 December 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10363MEE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A386, 16 km N of Okehampton, 30 km SSE of Bideford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian Parry, of Yorkshire, England, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Norman, square on five shafts, undecorated." Baptismal font of the table-top type common in the Norman period: a square basin with plain vertical sides, raised on a five-column support (broad central shaft + four slender colonnettes, all round with moulded bases), and a square lower base; polygonal plinth with kneeling stone. Square pyramidal wooden cover with knob finial. [We are grateful to Adrain Parry, of Yorkshire, England, for the photograph of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952