Moretonhampstead / Mortone
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
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Results: 9 records
design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 16
Scene Description: a pair on each side of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2021 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6946961] [accessed 23 January 2022]
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view of basin
Scene Description: Source caption: "Moretonhampstead - St Andrew's Church Font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2021 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6946961] [accessed 23 January 2022]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Velvet, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2014 by Velvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moretonhampstead_st_andew.JPG] [accessed 25 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Velvet, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2014 by Velvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moretonhampstead_st_andew_arriere.JPG] [accessed 25 June 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2019 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6161038] [accessed 25 June 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Moretonhampstead. The font is made of granite and seems to have survived the centuries intact and is a good example of a 15th century octagonal font. The panels and shaft are decorated with shallow niches. The font cover is not original".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2008 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/940090] [accessed 25 June 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the baptismal font is partially visible at the far [east] end of the nave, behind the left [north] bank of benches -- "Originally in the tower entrance, it was moved in fron of the pews [east end of the nave?] during the incumbency of the Revd. Peek [ca. 1980] so that children could be baptized in front of the congregation." [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190625007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the baptismal font is partially visible at the far [east] end of the nave, behind the left [north] bank of benches -- "Originally in the tower entrance, it was moved in fron of the pews [east end of the nave?] during the incumbency of the Revd. Peek [ca. 1980] so that children could be baptized in front of the congregation." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Velvet, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2014 by Velvet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moretonhampstead_st_andew_int.JPG] [accessed 25 June 2019]
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design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2008 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/940090] [accessed 25 June 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: the plain plinth is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2008 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/940090] [accessed 25 June 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10529MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century?, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church. Moved ca. 1980 to the E end of the nave, N side, by the chancel [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Fore St, Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot TQ13 8NN, UK
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A382, 20-25 km WSW of Exeter, in the NE area of the Dartmoor National Park
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Teignbridge
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Moretonhampstead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX7586/moretonhampstead/] [accessed 25 June 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX7553286090] notes: "Parish church, early C15 tower and late C15 nave and aisles with heavy restorations in 1856 and 1905. [...] Just outside the chancel is a C15 granite octagonal font with moulded edges and base and the shaft and panels decorated with shall trefoil-headed niches." The Parish web site [www.moretonhampstead.org.uk] informs: "The granite font seems to have survived the centuries intact and is a good example of a fifteenth century octagonal font: the panels and shaft are decorated with shallow niches. There is no sign of the original cover. Originally in the tower entrance, it was moved in fron of the pews [east end of the nave?] during the incumbency of the Revd. Peek [ca. 1980] so that children could be baptized in front of the congregation."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 446086 5612395
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.66091, -3.7628
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 39′ 39.28″ N, 3° 45′ 46.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: heavy wooden cover with raised arches and cross finial; modern