Templeton
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10471TEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [formerly Chapel of St. Margaret?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Part of the parish of Witheridge
Font Notes:
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Described in Oliver (1840-1842): "The Octagon font is rude and unadorned" [NB: the original Chapel of St. Margaret belonged to the Knights Templar, but most services took place in the mother church in Witheridge]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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, vol. 1: 104 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=zMcAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=east+ogwell+church+font&source=web&ots=qiwSmA3SaR&sig=GoYiaFZ4ZCCFH6_w3zYAGKNtOG4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA63,M1] [accessed 27 January 2009]