Malborough No. 1
Image copyright © Judy Gauthier, 2009
Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2009)
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20 arches
Scene Description: five arches per side of the square basin; some (?) are later re-carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Judy Gauthier, 2009
Image Source: detail of a photograph [2004?] by Judy Gauthier
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2009)
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - 3
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Scene Description: at the base of the central shaft [the outer colonnettes are modern replacements]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Judy Gauthier, 2009
Image Source: detail of a photograph [2004?] by Judy Gauthier
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2009)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Judy Gauthier, 2009
Image Source: detail of a photograph [2004?] by Judy Gauthier
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2009)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Judy Gauthier, 2009
Image Source: photograph [2004?] by Judy Gauthier
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2009)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Judy Gauthier, 2009
Image Source: photograph [2004?] by Judy Gauthier
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2009)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10430MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) / 13th century (early?), Medieval
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Shirwell, Coldridge and Kenn, also 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 on the A381, 4-5 km WNW of Salcombe, in the southern tip of Devon
Additional Comments: recycled font: the corner shafts of the base are modern, as is some of the re-tooling on the sides; repairs of bowl done using slate -- Judy Gauthier (of TO) visited the font in 2004 -- sent photos (contacted: 18 Jan 2009)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Stabb (1908) simply as "an old font". Described in Clarke (1922): "A square bowl on a central shaft and four corner shafts; the bowl has an arcade of five round-topped arches on each side. There is modern tooling on the panels of the arcade. The central shaft has a base of three mouldings; the corner shafts are modern, of marble; they have three mouldings on a square plinth as base. The bowl is limestone and has been repaired with slate; it bears considerable traces of whitewash. It is lead lined." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Norman, square, not high, of the familiar table-top type, with five very shallow blank arches on each side of the top." The major damage and repairs are at the upper angles of the basin; the central shaft of the base appears original, but the four outer colonnettes are modern replacements; the chamfered quadranqular lower base appears original. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration; 19th-century?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Judy Gauthier for her photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [basin] [outer colonnettes are modern marble]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57.50 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Depth: 23.75 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Height of Central Column: 31.25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 85 cm* [70 + 15]
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements given in inches in Clarke (1922: 223)]
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. 220, 221, 223
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 201
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 154