St. John-in-the-Wilderness
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10583JOH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Font Notes:
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Stabb (1908) notes: "The font is old, but the date on the base is, from the style of the font, far too early; it is quite impossible that it was erected at the date given, viz., 911; someone must have put this date on for a joke."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the base
Inscription Text: [911]
Inscription Notes: a later addition?
Inscription Source: Stabb (1908: 216)
REFERENCES
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 128, 216