Dowland No. 1

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B01: design element - motifs - rib - 8

Scene Description: at the angles

INFORMATION

FontID: 10511DOW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 7 km NNE of Hatherleigh, 12 km SE of Torrington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval [composite]
Baptismal font of a composite nature reported in Stabb (1908): "The font has an old small octagonal bowl mounted on a later shaft." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Small octagonal bowl with ribs at the angles." [cf. Index entry for Dowland No. 2 for an early holy-water stoup in the same church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

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