Coldridge / Coleridge

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 28

Scene Description: seven on each side

INFORMATION

FontID: 10431COL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew [St. Mary?]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A377, near Nymet Rowland, about 30 km NW of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Shirwell, Kenn, Southleigh and Malborough, also in Devon
Church Notes: Coldridge St Matthews -- earlier documents often refer to the place as "Coleridge"; Betjeman (1958: 139) has wrong dedication to St. Mary
Baptismal font noted in Stabb (1908): "The font is Norman". In her account of 13th-century "table fonts", Clarke (1922) writes: "Another good example of these square fonts is at Coleridge" [i.e., Coldridge in current use]; the same source mentions that the restoration of the Coldridge font base "has been well and appropriately done". In Pevsner (1952): "Font. Square, Norman, of the table-top type with seven fat blank arches on each side of the top."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [basin only]
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916