Kingsteignton / Kingstanton / King's Teignton / Teintone
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a band
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: graded mouldings
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design element - motifs - foliage
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design element - motifs - varied (quatrefoils, rosettes, etc.)
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view of font and cover in context
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: quite pronounced, like a lip, at the bottom of the stem
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design element - motifs - varied (quatrefoils, rosettes, etc.)
Scene Description: like those on the basin sides
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10541KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, by the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Church St, Kingsteignton TQ12 3BQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1626 355127
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3195, just N of Newton Abbott, 8 km W of Teignmouth, 13 km NW of Torquay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Teignbridge [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Kingsteighnton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX8773/kingsteignton/] [accessed 9 April 2023]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [...] is octagonal and well carved; observe the two faces on the south side, carved in the band of foliage and fruit round the base of the bowl. The south doorway is also richly carved with fruit and foliage, with curious little faces between, and a hand grasping a bunch of grapes. I should think the same sculptor carved both font and doorway." In Pevsner (1952): "leaf-work on the uncommonly richly decorated C15 font; the tracery pattern on the pillar is especially striking (blank ogee arches set horizontally)." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX8717472856] notes: "Parish church. C15, thoroughly restored in 1865 [...] C15 octagonal font, the bowl carved with quatrefoils, the stem with flamboyant blind tracery."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 457933 5599353
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.5446, -3.59372
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 32′ 40.56″ N, 3° 35′ 37.39″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat modern lid
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 192
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 142 and pl. 142b