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Permission received (email of 9 Janurary 2005)

Results: 5 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: there appears to be a rosette (?) in the centre of the quatrefoil

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B02: animal - bird - eagle - in a circle

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B03: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

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view of font

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © English Heritage, 2007

Image Source: B&W photograph (Ref. No.: BB98/06393 ) by Newton (ca. 1896-1920) in the National Monuments Record [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=86211&index=96&mainQuery=&searchType=all&form=basic&theme=&county=DEVON&district=EAST%20DEVON&=placeName] [accessed 21 January 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10507COT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km ENE of Honiton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 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 the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908).
Noted and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [...] is octagonal, with a thick central shaft, and eight small ones clustering round. On one panel is carved an eagle, on another a fleur-de-lis, and one panel has a shield, without arms." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Simple Perp[endicular], octagonal with quatrefoil panels." The font is illustrated in an early photograph in the English Heritage National Monuments Record (Ref. No. BB98/06393).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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