Hollacombe No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 10517HOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Petrock
Church Patron Saints: St. Petroc [aka Pedrog, Perreux, Petrock]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km SE of Holsworthy
Font Location in Church: Reported W of the S door ca.1908 -- reported outside, in the porch, ca.1952 [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Norman
Stabb (1908) notes two fonts in this church: one of them is "a square bowl resting on clustered pillars and a modern plinth" and is reported located "to the west of the south door". Pevsner (1952) refers to this same font also as one of two in this church: "[Font.], square, Norman, on five shafts, ouside the porch." [cf. Index entry for Hollacombe No. 2 for the octagonal font of later date inside this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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