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B01: coat of arms - Ferrers

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: coat of arms - Yard

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: coat of arms - Q. Lacy?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B04: coat of arms - St. George

Scene Description: "Argent, a cross gules, St. George" -- [cf. Font notes]

B05: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10472HIG

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located on a hill overlooking Newton Abbot, about 25 km SW of Exeter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1428?

Century and Period: 15th century?, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Oliver (1840-1842): "The octagon Font bears four shields. -- 1. Ferrers; 2. Yard; 3. Q. Lacy? 4. Argent, a cross gules, St. George." [NB: Oliver (ibid.) informs that, at the request of the locals, a new chapel "in honor of All Saints" was consecrated here on the 19th of April [i.e., 1428] by Bishop Edmund Lacy, which may be the date of the font as well -- Oliver fiurther notes that some of the emblems on the font relate to or are matched with others in other parts of the church]. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. With tracery panels on pillar and bowl; contemporary with the rest" [no mention of the shields].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952