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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
Font ID: 10387PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Pevsner (1952): "[Abbotsham], Beaford, Bradworthy, Clayhanger, and Parkham nearby"
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Bideford
Font Notes:
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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; p. 309, 319 and ill. on p. opp. p. 307
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 188 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=V_YGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22roborough+stone%22&source=bl&ots=2ZhOkO8ZIn&sig=RriwKcw-zwLPfFdGUaHE7WccPgU&hl=en&ei=QRWkSZHXMYjTnQe2ud2pBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR5,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 38, 133