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B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with rose in the centre) - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: around the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10545MEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A35, 14 km ENE of Honiton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, under the tower arch
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:
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Ancient baptismal font noted and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "There is an old octagonal font with carved panels [...], under the tower arch." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Perp[pendicular], octagonal, with pointed quatrefoil panels."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916