Ashton

Results: 4 records

B01: coat of arms - Stourton

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details]

B02: coat of arms - Stourton - impaled with Chudleigh

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details]

B03: coat of arms - Chudleigh

Scene Description: "The arms of Chudleigh, viz. Ermine, 3 Lioncels rampant, Gules" (Oliver (1840-1842))

B04: coat of arms - Chudleigh impaled with Tremaine

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10489ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [cf. ChurchNotes below for earlier dedication]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3193, about 8 km SW of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use his transcription of Stabb (1908).
Church Notes: Stabb (1908-1916) refers to Oliver's Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis which informed that the old church "was dedicated to St. Nectan on November 22nd 1259"
Baptismal font dating probably to the major rebuilding of the church in the late 15th century. Oliver (1840-1842) writes: "The Font is an octagon; but four of the sides bear shields 1st, of Stourton : 2nd of Stourton impaled with Chudleigh. (N.B. Jas. Chudleigh married Margaret, daughter of Wm. Lord Stourton, by his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir John Chideok, Knt. in 1476) : 3rd of Chudleigh : 4th ditto impaled or rather meant as I imagine, to be impaled with Tremaine." [NB: Oliver adds elsewhere: "The arms of Chudleigh, viz. Ermine, 3 Lioncels rampant, Gules"] The font is again mentioned in Stabb (1908-1916): "There is an octagonal font", without further detail [source: Roger Peter's transcription in www.wissensdrang.com]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
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
Oliver, George, Monasticon Diocesis Exoniensis, being a collection of records and instruments illustrating the ancient conventual, collegiate, and eleemosynary foundations, in the counties of Cornwall and Devon, [...], 1846
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916