Plymtree

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - panel - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: [cf.Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - tracery

INFORMATION

FontID: 10372PLY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M5, 6 km SSE of Cullompton, 15 km NE of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Described in Lysons (1806-1822) as an octagonal baptismal font ornamented "with quatrefoils and tracery". Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 "octagonal stone font". Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Plain octagonal, Perp[endicular] with quatrefoil panels."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
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, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952