Buckland Brewer / Bocheland / Buckland-Brewer
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 June 2015)
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view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2015 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4462469] [accessed 3 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2015 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4462455] [accessed 3 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Scene Description: the present font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buckland Brewer History Group, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph of 18 June 2015, courtesy of Janet Few, Buckland Brewer History Group
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 June 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10492BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Benedict
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Benedict
Church Location: Buckland Brewer, Devon, EX39 5XB
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NW of Great Torrington, SW of Bideford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Merton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Shebbear
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janet Few, of the Buckland Brewer History Group, for the photograph of, and information on the modern font here
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Buckland [Brewer] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SS4120/buckland-brewer/] [accessed 3 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Is it C17?" [NB: an e-mail communication of 4 June 2015 from Janet Few, of the Buckland Brewer History Group, notes: "According to W E Rogers, who wrote a history of the parish in 1930 'The Font was hued by one Thomas Jewell in 1771, for which he was paid £1 7s.'; he make no mention of an earlier font. I think this information is taken from a Churchwarden’s Account that is now missing. Although there would certainly have been an earlier font, I am afraid that we do not know what happened to it."]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.965947, -4.252892
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 57.41″ N, 4° 15′ 10.41″ W
UTM: 30U 412022 5646785
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952