Braunton / Brantona

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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - tracery
B02: Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - in a quatrefoil
BH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one at each angle of the square basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phajus, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 December 2009 by Phajus [www.flickr.com/photos/10350073@N04/4194591541/] [accessed 11 December 2011]
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view of church exterior
view of font
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 10406BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Brannock
Church Patron Saints: St. Brannock
Church Location: Church Street, Braunton, Devon, EX33 2EL
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of Barnstable, in North Devon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the doorway
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [altered font?], Norman[altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908).
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted as a Norman font in Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865). Described and illustrated in Stabb (1908), who adds an observation related to the location of the font inside the church: "Near the south door is a good Norman font [...]; the bowl is square, supported on four pillars and a central shaft. There are faces carved on the corners of the bowl, on the east side are arches and the Agnus Dei, and on the north side a man's head. For some reason or other the south door seems the most generally used for entrance into the church, and it is therefore more usual to find the font near the south door, but as baptism is the sacrament by which we enter into the Church, the font would be placed near the doorway most generally used, which in this case is, I suppose, the one in the north porch. At one time the majority of churches, where the position rendered it possible, had both north and south entrances, and the font was then often placed in the nave at equal distances from both." Hussell (1910) dates the basin of the font to the "Early Decorated period, about 1310 [...] The stem and small pillars are modern". Described in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Square bowl of Norman shape, with faces at the corners, but with tracery of c. 1300 (probably Norman and later reworked)."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 418657 5662699
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: quadrangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quadrangular
Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular
REFERENCES
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; r["References"]
Hussell, Allen T., North Devon Churches: Studies of some of the ancient buildings, Barnstaple: Printed at the 'Herald' Press, 1910
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916