Butterleigh

INFORMATION

FontID: 10504BUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M54-5 km W of Cullampton, about 15 km N of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Early baptismal font mentioned in Stabb (1908): "There is an old Norman font, but it has been so much scraped it is not of great interest." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Plain Norman."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916