Alverdiscott
Image copyright © Clarke, 1919
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle - 4
Scene Description: several, one on each side of the square basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Clarke, 1919
Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1919)
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 4
Scene Description: one at each rounded angle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Clarke, 1919
Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1919)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Clarke, 1919
Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1919)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10388ALV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: Sheepwash, Eggesford, etc., all in Devon
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 6.5 km E of Bideford
Additional Comments: recycled font: only the basin is original, and even it has been cut and altered
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font with a basin of the cushion-capital type, but looking quite different from the others of this type in Devon [cf. Index entries for Sheepwash, Eggesford, etc.], a difference which Clarke (1919) explains: "Unfortunately the bowl has been cut down, and the edge finished with cement. The bowl of Eggesford font, which is of the same design, is only about an inch wider, but it is five inches deeper, so that of Alverdiscott must have been deprived of at least four inches in depth. It has no lining and no drain hole. The surface bears modern axe-dressing; diagonal on the semicircular faces, vertical on the side parts. The basin [inside] is a square with the corners rounded. The bowl stands on a modern granite shaft, which is too tall in proportion, placed on a limestone plinth." Described in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Norman, of block-capital shape, with a little rosette, fleur-de-lis, etc., decoration."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [modern base is granite; modern plinth is limestone]
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cushion-capital shape, square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square (rounded angles)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: not lined
Rim Thickness: 5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 43.75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 53.75 cm*
Basin Depth: 13 cm*
Basin Total Height: 27.5 cm*
Height of Central Column: 67.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Clarke (1919) argues that this basin has been cut and altered -- * [measurements given in inches in Clarke (1919: 221)]
REFERENCES
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VI", 51, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1919, pp. 211-221; p. [211], 217-218, 221 and pl. III (opp. p. 217)
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 38