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 - foliage

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: graded mouldings
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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.)

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design element - motifs - varied (quatrefoils, rosettes, etc.)

Scene Description: like those on the basin sides
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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10541KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Church St, Kingsteignton TQ12 3BQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1626 355127
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, by the S entrance
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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).
Font Notes:
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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.5446, -3.59372
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 40.56″ N, 3° 35′ 37.39″ W
UTM: 30U 457933 5599353

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
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916