Tormohun / Tor Mohun / Tormoham / Tor Moham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10373TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located adjacent to Cockington, not far from Torquay
Font Notes:
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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51350] [accessed 13 March 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
  • 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, vol. 1: 207 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=zMcAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=east+ogwell+church+font&source=web&ots=qiwSmA3SaR&sig=GoYiaFZ4ZCCFH6_w3zYAGKNtOG4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA212,M1] [accessed 27 January 2009]