Woodbury
Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with rose in the centre) - 8
Scene Description: one in each framed panel of the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
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BU01: design element - architectural - groined ceiling, ribs, bosses, etc.
Scene Description: the pattern, one on each side, runs from the top of the underbowl to the middle of the stem of the base, without interruption
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
BU02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: from the top of the underbowl to the end of the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 9 January 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10612WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithin
Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B1379, 10 km SE of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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:
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Illustrated in 1876 in Hutchinson's diaries and sketchbooks (2010). Stabb (1908) notes: "The font [...] dates from the 15th century, and has, carved on the shaft, details of a groined roof, ribs, and bosses." In Pevsner (1952): "The usual octagonal Perp[endicular] type with quatrefoil panels, but the pillar nicely decorated with vaulting rib patterns."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low octagonal dome; decorated
REFERENCES
Hutchinson, Peter Orlando, Diary of a Devon antiquarian: the illustrated journals and sketchbooks of Peter Olrlando Hutchinson, 1871-1894, Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove, 2010
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916