East Putford
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: most of this decorative band was cut off; only the lower part of some of the circles can be seen aroun the present rim side
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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BBL01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
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BU01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: resembling an arcade of tall round arches, but usually described as fluting in this type of font
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: Moulding part of the lower basin block.
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10402PUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [originally a chapelry annexed to Buckland Brewer]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Putford -both East and West, are located about 15 km SW of Bideford, 35-40 km N of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Like the font at Harberton (before the East Putford font was damaged)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916): "This interesting font has unfortunately lost the upper part of the bowl [...] Originally the rim of the font must have been adorned for part of its circumference by a band of star medallions similar to Harberton [cf. Index entry]. At present there is just enough left to show what it was; the lower portions of four of the stars". Clarke (ibid.) further notes that the shallowness of the inner basin well, 5 1/2 inches only, is a strong indication of the fate of the upper bowl side, as well as the fact that the upper "rough edge has been filled up and made smooth and level with cement". Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman, bowl partly destroyed. Originally it was just like that at Harberton."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 41.25 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 58 cm*
Basin Depth: 13.75 cm*
Basin Total Height: 26.25 - 30 cm*
Height of Central Column: 30.6 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[all measurements given in inches in Clarke (1916: 319) refer to the font after the alteration]
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. 306-307, 319 and ill. on p. opp. p. 303
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952