Witheridge / Wirige
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - floral - flower - in a quatrefoil - 8
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 24
Scene Description: three per side of the octagonal font, above the large quatrefoils with inscribed floral motifs
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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage
Scene Description: all around the upper rim
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "These are a 20th century copy of the stocks, placed to mark the centenary of the local authority."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2013 by David Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3702469] [accessed 8 November 2019]
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view of church interior - capital
![Source caption: "Column capital in Witheridge church [...] shows two foxes fighting over a goose"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191108011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Column capital in Witheridge church [...] shows two foxes fighting over a goose"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2013 by David Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3506585] [accessed 8 November 2019]
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design element - patterns - tracery - varied
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
Scene Description: on the upper sides of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/devon/churches/witheridge.htm] [accessed 8 November 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10576WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: The font at Chittlehampton is of the same style and age
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church St, Witheridge, Chulmleigh EX16 8AF, UK
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3137 [aka Church St / Fore St], 16 km W of Tiverton, 15 km SSE of South Molton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Witheridge
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Witheridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS8014/witheridge/] [accessed 8 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Oliver (1840-2) writes: "The font and the capital [sic] of the pillars supporting the four circular arches of the nave, are justly admired for the boldness of the sculpture". Stabb (1908) writes: "There is a good font of the same style and date as that at Chittlehampton." [i.e. Perpendicular] [cf. Index entry for Chittlehampton]. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Perp, octafonal, quite richly decorated, mainly with quatrefoils." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SS8032714568] notes; "Anglican parish church. Circa 1500, restored 1841 and 1884. [...] Perpendicular font, octagonal, richly decorated with quatrefoils."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 450521 5640913
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.91774, -3.7039
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 55′ 3.86″ N, 3° 42′ 14.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with low-pyramidal top; cross finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Oliver, George, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon: being Observations on Several Churches in Devonshire, with some Memoranda for the History of Cornwall, Exeter: W.C. Featherstone, 1840-1842, vol. 1: 190 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=zMcAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=east+ogwell+church+font&source=web&ots=qiwSmA3SaR&sig=GoYiaFZ4ZCCFH6_w3zYAGKNtOG4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA63,M1] [accessed 27 January 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952, p. 169
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 256