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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10372PLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M5, 6 km SSE of Cullompton, 15 km NE of Exeter
Font Notes:
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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51217] [accessed 22 February 2007]
  • 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. 246