Ottery St. Mary No. 1 / Ottery Saint Mary

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 8 arches - Gothic arches

Scene Description: on the stem of the Perpendicular font said to be buried under the present Victorian font

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W original in a digital photograph 11 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/panr/5530330462/] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the base of the Perpendicular font said to be buried under the present Victorian font

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W original in a digital photograph 11 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/panr/5530330462/] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the basin of the Perpendicular font said to be buried under the present Victorian font

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W original in a digital photograph 11 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/panr/5530330462/] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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symbol - shield - blank - 8

Scene Description: on the basin of the Perpendicular font said to be buried under the present Victorian font

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W original in a digital photograph 11 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/panr/5530330462/] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: renovated 1849-1850 by William Butterfield

Image Source: digital photograph 31 July 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 August 2021)

view of church interior - ceiling - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Ottery St Mary, Devon - Roof"

Image Source: digital image of a 13 August 1993 photograph by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1732021] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Ottery St Mary, Devon - East end"

Image Source: digital image of a 13 August 1993 photograph by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1732012] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: the Perpendicular font said to be buried under the present Victorian font

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W original in a digital photograph 11 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/panr/5530330462/] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption; "St Mary, Ottery St Mary, Devon - Font. A Butterfield font designed in 1850 - all the marble is from Devon and Cornwall. The cover is in a Byzantine style."

Image Source: digital image of a 13 August 1993 photograph by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1732026] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the Victorian font and cover in the foreground, left [north] side

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: although the source caption reads "The old font of the Parish Church of Ottery St Mary, Devon [...] The font itself can just be seen beneath the elaborate modern cover that incorporates many coloured marbles", this is the 19thC font that replaced its Perpendicular predecessor, of which a B&W photograph can be seen standing against the font cover [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 11 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [www.flickr.com/photos/panr/5530330462/] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10549OTT

Church/Chapel: Parish [formerly collegiate] Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: The College, Ottery St Mary, Ottery Saint Mary EX11 1DQ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1404 812062

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the B3174, S of the A30, 6-7 km SW of Honiton, 16 km ENE of Exeter

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Historical Region: Hundred of Ottery St Mary

Font Location in Church: [buried under the present font]

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this church

Church Notes: first vicar listed 1154 ; renovated 1849-1850 by William Butterfield

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Ottery [St Mary] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY0995/ottery-st-mary/] [accessed 2 August 2021] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a Perpendicular font in this church. Stabb (1908) notes: "The old font is buried beneath a modern construction of many coloured marbles, a fine font, but out of keeping with the church." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY0985295580] notes: "Consecrated by Bishop Bronescombe in 1260. Altered and added to by Bishop Grandison circa 1330. Mainly Early English. [...] The interior was restored drastically mid C19 by Butterfield and others", but it mentions no font in it. [cf. Index entry for Ottery St. Mary No. 2 for details of the Victorian replacement font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.753067, -3.278897

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 11.04″ N, 3° 16′ 44.03″ W

UTM: 30U 480326 5622403

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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