Plymouth No. 3
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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
Font ID: 10556PLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 9th - 10th century, Pre-Conquest
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The Church used to be on the S side of Bedford St., but was reconstructed after WWII on the S side of Royal Parade
Font Notes:
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A font in this church is noted and ilustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font [...] is modern, it was placed in the church about 1876." [cf. Index entry for Plymouth No. 1 for the font destroyed in the Civil Wars, and Plymouth No. 2 for the 17th-century font that replaced it but ended up in St Catherine's]. [NB: a church here is said to have existed in Anglo-Saxon times, having been replaced by a Norman church in the 12th century; we have no information on the original font].
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 418936 5580369
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.3698, -4.1399
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 22′ 11.28″ N, 4° 8′ 23.64″ W
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, p. 183 and pl. 183b