Southleigh nr. Honiton / Lege / South Leigh
Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Permission received from Dr. Roger Rogers (email of 9 January 2005)
Results: 4 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
Scene Description: four arches per side of the square basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/devon/churches/southleigh.htm] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Lawrence Church, Southleigh"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 March 2020 by Roger Cornfoot [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6421872] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St Lawrence Church, Southleigh"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Cornfoot, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 March 2020 by Roger Cornfoot [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6421884] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Stabb in Roger Rogers [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Dr. Roger Rogers (email of 9 January 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10432SOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [aka St. Laurence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Southleigh, Colyton EX24 6SB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1297 552307
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located N of the A3052, 5-6 km SW of Colyton, about 12 km SSE of Honiton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exter
Historical Region: Hundred of Colyton [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Shirwell, Kenn, Coldridge and Malborough, 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).
There is an entry for this Southleigh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY2093/southleigh/] [accessed 19 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Stabb (1908) writes: "The font [...] is interesting; it is Norman, with square top on thick central shaft, with four smaller ones at the corners. It has an old cover, and the iron fastenings, reminiscent of the time [1236-1536] when it was obligatory for the font to be kept locked." Mentioned in Clarke (1922) as one of series of 13th-century "table fonts" in which the restoration of the base supports "has been well and appropriately done". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY2047493403] notes: "Parish church. Norman origins, some C13 and C15 work but most was rebuilt in the C19 [...] Norman-style Beerstone font on a Purbeck marble base." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [cf. supra]: "the subsidiary shafts are restored" [source given: Professor E.M. Jope].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.73479,
-3.1284
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 44′ 5.24″ N,
3° 7′ 42.24″ W
UTM: 30U 490939 5620341
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Beerstone) [basin] / limestone (Purbeck marble) [base]
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: the font cover is of an old design, but it is not clear whether or not it is a replica of the type
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"]
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916
