Shillingford St. George

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B01: design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 16?

Scene Description: two narrow ones framing each of the motifs/symbols of the octagonal basin

Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

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B02: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: on some of the panels of the basin

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B03: coat of arms - Courtenay

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

B04: coat of arms - Huddersfield

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

B05: symbol - shield - emblem - Holy Trinity? (three fish in a circle, holding each other's tails)

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

B06: coat of arms - Huddersfield

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]

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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding

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BU01: symbol - shield - blank - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the concave underbowl

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LB01: design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: a tall blank trefoil window on each panel of the stem

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10580SHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located just SW of Exeter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic 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).

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Stabb (1908) writes: "There is a font [...] at the west end of the church with shields bearing arms, on the west side, Courtenay; on the south, Huddersfield; on the north, three fish in a circle, holding each others tails, possibly representing the Holy Trinity; on the east, Huddersfield. The font is probably late 15th century in date." The font consists of an octagonal basin raised on a pedestal base and plinth; the sides of the basin, framed by mouldings at the upper and lower rims, have panels with individual motifs set between two Ogee windows in each side; as indicated in Stabb above, every other panel has a coat of arms, while the remaining panels have tracery motifs; the underbowl is concave, each side decorated with a blank shield; the setm of the base has blank trefoil windows, one on each side; the lower base is moulded nut otherwise plain; the plinth is octagonal and plain. Flat wooden cover, looks modern, with knob finial/handle.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

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