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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Hussell, in Hussell (1910)
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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Hussell, in Hussell (1910)
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view of church exterior - west tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger A. Smith, 2009
Image Source: 29 March 2009 by Roger A. Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1241042] [accessed 11 December 2011]
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view of font

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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Hussell, in Hussell (1910)
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INFORMATION

FontID: 10568NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Fore Street, Northam, Devon, EX39 1JL
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Hussell (1910): "The font [...] is octagonal, the basin being probably of Early Perpendicular, evidently roughly used at one time, as it has been broken right across and joined together with metal cramps. It rests on a modern stem, also octagonal, with a moulded cap and base." Pevsner (1952), however, writes: "Font. C13, octagonal with the flat blank arches of the table-top type (but pointed)."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.039797, -4.214676
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 2′ 23.27″ N, 4° 12′ 52.84″ W
UTM: 30U 414841 5654952

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Hussell, Allen T., North Devon Churches: Studies of some of the ancient buildings, Barnstaple: Printed at the 'Herald' Press, 1910
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952