Heanton Punchardon / Hantone / Heanton Puncharden

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view of font and cover

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view of church interior - plan

the font appears indicated as no. 2, in the west end of the nave, just east of a pillar, opposite the south entrance
Scene Description: the font appears indicated as no. 2, in the west end of the nave, just east of a pillar, opposite the south entrance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heanton Punchardon Parish, 2005
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE (requested email of 19 January 2005) -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 10516HEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Augustine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near a pillar, in the W end of the nave, opposite the S door [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine of Hippo
Church Address: 37 Heanton Hill, Heanton, Braunton, Barnstaple EX31 4DQ, UK
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A361, 7-8 km WNW of Barnstaple
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Braunton [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Heaton (Punchardon) [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS5035/heanton-punchardon/] [accessed 12 December 2023] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "a very curious font". Noted also in The National Gazetteer of Gt. Britain and Ireland (1868): "ancient font of curious workmanship". [source: Colin Hinson's transcription in GENUKI www.genuki.og.uk]. Noted also in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Octagonal, without notable features, on five shafts." The font consists of a plain irregular octagonal basin with a chamfered underbowl, raised on a broad central shaft and four slender outer colonnettes; the latter appear attached to the central shaft; the whole is raised on a square lower base and a rectangular plinth. The octagonal wooden cover on the font appears modern. The web site of the Parish [www.heantonparish.org.uk] informs that the font "came from an earlier building but bears no indication of its date. Its unsymmetrical external shape suggests that it one stood against a wall". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS5021735584] notes: " Parish Church. C13 and later [...] Octagonal stone font with faceted base to bowl supported on squat central column and 4 corner colonettes on square base"

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 420135 5661564
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.1, -4.14064
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 6′ 0″ N, 4° 8′ 26.3″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

  • The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [www.genuki.org.uk]
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51019] [accessed 8 February 2007]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 97
  • Ruffle, L.N., St. Augustine's Church, Heanton Punchardon, Barnstaple, [Heanton?]: L.J. Bell, 1975, [unknown]