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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Clarke (1919)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10415INS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: Several other such fonts in Devon and Pembrokeshire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3233, 6 km N of Bideford
Additional Comments: recycled font: only the basin is original, and that repaired and restored
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font of the cushion-bowl type, described and illustrated in Clarke (1919): "Quite plain except for axe-dressing which is modern work. Patches of new stone have been inserted at the rim on all sides but the north. The modern base is circular [...] The material is limestone; the bowl is lead lined." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Plain, Norman, of block-capital shape." Noted in Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font of the Norman period in the cushion-capital style.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cushion-capital shape, square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 5 - 6 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 42.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 53.75 - 50 cm*
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Height of Central Column: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 62.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements given in inches in Clarke (1919: 221)]
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. 222
- 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. 212, 219, 221 and pl. IV (opp. p. 219)
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 108
- Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006, p. 187