Parkham
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B01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: or concave ribbing, all around
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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CR01: design element - motifs - chevron
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10387PAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Bideford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Pevsner (1952): "[Abbotsham], Beaford, Bradworthy, Clayhanger, and Parkham nearby"
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted as a Norman font in Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865). Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Plain, Norman". Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916): "This graceful font is very much like that of Abbotsham though it varies from it in outline, because the bowl expands at the rim while at Abbotsham it contracts; also the shaft is purely cylindrical; Abbotsham's is slightly conical. There is no cable at the rim. Between bowl and shaft is a chevron moulding; this has an unusual feature; the pointed sections are alternately raised and sunk [...] The font is of grey Devonian rock; it is in very good condition".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, [grey Devonian rock]
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.5 - 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55.6 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35.6 - 40 cm*
Height of Base: 36.75 [28 + 8.75 for the centre ring]
Height of Central Column: 28 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"]
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952