Hollacombe No. 2
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10518HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Petrock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [reported close to the chancel ca.1908]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Petroc [aka Pedrog, Perreux, Petrock]
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km SE of Holsworthy
Font Notes:
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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, p. 101
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 122