Ashton

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10489ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist [cf. Church Notes below for earlier dedication]
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"
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3193, about 8 km SW of Exeter
Font Notes:
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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use his transcription of Stabb (1908).

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, vol. 1: 194-195 / [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#PPA192,M1] [accessed 27 January 2009]
  • 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, [page ref. not available]
  • Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, [p. 2]