Iddesleigh / Idsleigh
INFORMATION
FontID: 10520IDD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NNE of Hatherleigh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Octagonal baptismal font noted in Stabb (1908). Also in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Octagonal, Perp, with very plain decoration. Jacobean cover."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean / 16th - 17th century?
Material:
wood,
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