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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped - 20
Scene Description: five scallops per side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
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Scene Description: note the modern plinth, the upper part of which was made to mirror the shape of the basin, much to Clarke's chagrin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10423EXE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A396, 5 km N of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Cadbury and Chrisrow, also in Devon
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
Baptismal font described rather dismissively in Oliver (1840-1842): "Entering by an acutely pointed south arch, the first object that attracted notice was a very low Font, but without any pretensions to beauty." Noted and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [plate 167] is old, with a square bowl, scalloped beneath and on the base." Described in Clarke (1920): "Distinctly a table font, though the under surface of the bowl is cut into cones, five on each side; they are of irregular width, and at the south-east corner there is a small quirk to fill up the space. The four sides of the bowl are quite plain, but the ends of the cones produce the effect of a scalloped edge. The shaft is cylindrical, resting on a modern plinth, which by a very egregious bit of bad taste, repeats the design of the bowl, inverted; a series of cones appearing on the upper surface. The whole font is of red local stone." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Norman square bowl with scalloped underside (cf. Cadbury, Christow) on short round shaft standing in its turn on a squarebase with scalloped top."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, red stone (local)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: square (scalloped capital) (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Rim Thickness: 3.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 55 cm*
Basin Depth: 18.25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 27.5 cm*
Height of Base: 47.5 cm* [32.5 + 15]
Height of Central Column: 32.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 91.25 cm* [75 + 16.25]
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements given in inches in Clarke (1920: 335)]
REFERENCES
Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VII", 52, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1920, pp. 327-335; r["References"]
Oliver, George, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon: being Observations on Several Churches in Devonshire, with some Memoranda for the History of Cornwall, Exeter: W.C. Featherstone, 1840-1842
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916