Buckland in the Moor / Bochelande / Buckland-in-the-Moor

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design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: like a stylised floral or foliage motif; a triquetra?

Image Source: editd detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2295501] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: a broad band of

Image Source: editd detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2295501] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: editd detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2295501] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: a single row of, right under the centre ring

Image Source: editd detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2295501] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: incomplete pattern; only visible on one side of the basin

Image Source: editd detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2295501] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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symbol - star - Norman star - beads - in a circle

Scene Description: a band of

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: photograph taken 13 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1730353] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2013 by Ruth Sharville [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3761322] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Buckland in the Moor: St Peter's - the rood screen. Hoskins refers to the 'rich rood screen' in St Peter's church. It probably dates from the early 16th century, after the extensive rebuilding of the building. The pulpit dates from the 18th century [Source: W G Hoskins, Devon, Devon Books, 1992]"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2010 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1942160] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: although only part of the cover is visible in the ca. 1914 photograph, it is enough to see that it is the same cover that is on the font at present [2011]

Image Source: B&W photograph in Clarke (1914)

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view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1908

Image Source: B&W photograph in Stabb (1908), in Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 9 January 2005)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: notice that the font has been re-mounted on a new integrated lower base and plinth

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2295501] [accessed 3 June 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10377BUC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Buckland in the Moor, Devon, TQ13 7HP

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A58, 16 km W of Newton Abbot, about 35 km SW of Exeter, in the SE area of Dartmoor Forest and National Park

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Historical Region: Hundred of Kerswell [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: Basin similarly ornamented at Coffinswell, also in Devon

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and image from Stabb (1908).

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Buckland [-in-the-Moor] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SX7273/buckland-in-the-moor/] [accessed 3 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Stabb (1908) writes: "The font is Norman, having a circular basin with a narrow plain band at the top, then a band of carving, with cable moulding underneath. It stands on a large circular block of stone, that looks something like another font turned upside down." Described and illustrated in Clarke (1914): "Until a short time ago it was the only girdled tub-font in Devon standing on a base, five separate stones, of the original construction, as at St. Pancras, Exeter. This beautiful and distinctive feature has vanished, the whole of the base having been thickly coated over its entire surface with cement. It is almost incredible that anyone could be found with so little perception as to do this thing; to rob the font of its unique characteristic, and to degrade it in this particular hideous way. Again, round the rim was a band of Norman start ornament; this has been almost obliterated by the same offensive cement. Below the faint traces of star ornament is a band of palmetto, in panels formed by the curved stem; lozenges between the panels. The girdle is a cable twist; immediately below it is a single row of scallop ornament, and round the whole of the lower stone is a band of circular medallions, enclosing the six-pointed star, or conventional lily, with beads between the points. There is a patch of new stone on the west side." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Norman, goblet type with palmette, rosette, and cable ornament." The font is now re-mounted; the round lower base may be, as suggested above, covered in the cement lower bas, to which has been added a plinth or kneeling stone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.543618, -3.807851

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 37.03″ N, 3° 48′ 28.27″ W

UTM: 30U 442759 5599387

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 4.50 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 51.25 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 32.5 cm*

Height of Base: 46.25 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 100 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Clarke (1914: 436)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round flat platform with vertical scroll ribs; appears modern

REFERENCES

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part II", 46, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1914, pp. 428-435; r["References"]

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IV", 48, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1916, pp. 302-319; r["References"]

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; r["References"]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952

Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916