Braunton / Brantona
Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: a later addition
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
B02: Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - in a quatrefoil
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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]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving of a September 2007 drawing by Hussell, in Hussell (1910)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the artist's annotation reads "from the S.W.", but the view appears to be northeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving of a September 2007 drawing by Hussell, in Hussell (1910)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phajus, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2009 by Phajus [www.flickr.com/photos/10350073@N04/4194591541/] [accessed 11 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10406BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [altered font?], Norman[altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Brannock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Brannock
Church Address: Church Street, Braunton, Devon, EX33 2EL
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of Barnstable, in North Devon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Additional Comments: altered font: re-carved ca. 1300? [question on the location of the font: Stabb (1908) says by the S door; British Listed Buildings database says by the N door]
Font Notes:
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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)."
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).
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; p. 217
- Hussell, Allen T., North Devon Churches: Studies of some of the ancient buildings, Barnstaple: Printed at the 'Herald' Press, 1910, p. 23, 24
- 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. 60
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 32 and pl. 32c