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B01: design element - motifs - foliage - honeysuckle or palmetto
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1916)
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BBU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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BU01: design element - motifs - sawtooth
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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10404THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 13th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Fonts of this type at: Ashprington, Blackauton, Buckfastleigh, Denbury, Cornworthy, Dartmouth St. Petrock's, Paignton St Andrew's, Plymstock, South Brent, Thurlestone, Ugborough and Wolbororugh, 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 just W of South Milton, 7 km WSW of Kingsbridge
Font Notes:
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Stabb (1908) notes that "The Norman font is of red sandstone". Described and illustrated in Clarke (1916) as one of twelve Devon fonts of about the same period [Norman/Late Norman] decorated with a prominent band of honeysuckle or palmetto motif all around the basin [the twelve are: Ashprington, Blackauton, Buckfastleigh, Denbury, Cornworthy, Dartmouth St. Petrock's, Paignton St Andrew's, Plymstock, South Brent, Thurlestone, Ugborough and Wolbororugh, all in Devon]. Clarke (ibid.) writes that this font is practically identical to the font at Wolborough, both made of red sandstone. In Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman, of red sandstone, a usual type, with palmette frieze and cable moulding above, zigzag below." Noted in Hoskins (1954) as Norman.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (red)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76.25 cm*
Basin Depth: 22.50 cm*
Basin Total Height: 46.25 - 51.25 cm*
Height of Central Column: 15 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 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. 315, 319 and pl. VIII (opp. p. 315)
- Hoskins, William George, Devon, London: Collins, 1954, [cited in http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/110432/1.html [accessed 17 March 2009]]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 283
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 233