Templeton

INFORMATION

FontID: 10471TEM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church [formerly Chapel of St. Margaret?]

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Part of the parish of Witheridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

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