Tormohun / Tor Mohun / Tormoham / Tor Moham

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - foliage

BU01: angel - cherub - 8?

INFORMATION

FontID: 10373TOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located adjacent to Cockington, not far from Torquay
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Described in Lysons (1806-1822) as an octagonal baptismal font ornamented with "foliage, and winged figures at the angles as supporters". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an ancient stone font" in this church. [NB: Oliver (1840-2) writes of a baptismal font as part of a dream or vision that Henry, a Franciscan friar confessor from Oxford, saw after the confession of Reginald de Mohun, Lord of Dunstorre and founder of Newenham Abbey -- in the context of the narrative it appears that the font was part of the actual abbey furnishings, but it could well have been a fictional object]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
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
Oliver, George, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon: being Observations on Several Churches in Devonshire, with some Memoranda for the History of Cornwall, Exeter: W.C. Featherstone, 1840-1842