Beaford
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B01: design element - patterns - fluted
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CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10384BEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km E of Gt. Torrington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Described in Pevsner (1952): "[Abbotsham], Beaford, Bradworthy, Clayhanger, and Parkham nearby".
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Norman of goblet form, the bowl fluted and with cable-mouldings at the rim and between bowl and shaft", one of group containing the fonts at "[Abbotsham], Beaford, Bradworthy, Clayhanger, and Parkham nearby". Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916) as one of group [cf. Pevsner's note infra] she dates to the late twelfth century: "A small but charming font of reddish stone [...] The bowl apears to have been at some time detached from the shaft, but no part of it is missing. The shaft itself has a crack on the western side which has been carefully repared, and unhappily a large slice has been taken off on the eastern side, no doubt so as to cram a pew up against it [...] The shaft is higher than usual, and perhaps for that reason there is no base, but it is now raised on a modern plinth. The bowl is not lined and the drain-hole is stopped up. The staples of the cover are gone, but their lead setting remains."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, [red Devonian stone]
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 4.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 47.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 56.25 cm*
Basin Depth: 17.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 32.5 - 35 cm*
Height of Base: 50.75 cm [42.5 + 8.25 for the centre ring]
Height of Central Column: 42.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 82.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319)]
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 V", 50, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1918, pp. 583-587; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952