Payhembury No. 1

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B01: design element - motifs - panel - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 10552PAY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6-8 km W of Honiton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: Church restoration in 1895-1897
Baptismal font noted in Stabb (1908): "The font is old with a modern cover." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Plain, odtagonal, Perp[endicular] with quatrefoil panels." The cover was designed by George H. Fellowes Prynne, the architect who restored the church in 1895-1897 [source: www.wilfrid.com/people/felowwes_prynne.htm]. [cf. Index entry for Payhembury No. 2 for a holy-water stoup listed for this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1895-1897 / Modern
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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