Hollacombe No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 10518HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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: Inside the church [reported close to the chancel ca.1908]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
One of two baptismal fonts in this church reported in Stabb (1908): "close to the chancel is preserved an old font with an octagonal bowl with circular basin roughly carved out, it stands on a modern shaft." Also noted in Pevsner (1952) as one of two fonts in this church: "Font. Octagonal, inside the church" [cf. Index entry for Hollacombe No. 1 for an old Norman square font in this 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