Woodbury

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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

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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

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BU02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: from the top of the underbowl to the end of the stem of the base

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10612WOO
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).
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