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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10472HIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1428?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century?, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on a hill overlooking Newton Abbot, about 25 km SW of Exeter
Font Notes:
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, vol. 1: p. 179 / [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]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 178