Hawkchurch / Avekchurche / Havekchurch / Highchurch
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Margaret Lewis, 2006
Image Source: digital image 2006 by Margaret Lewis [http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/hawkchurch-baptismalfont.jpg] [accessed 16 February 2006]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail
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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail
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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail
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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail
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view of church interior - nave - capital
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view of church interior - chancel arch - capital
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view of church interior - chancel arch - capital - detail
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view of church interior - chancel arch - capital
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view of church interior - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11496HAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist [All Saints & St. Peter in earlier times?]
Church Notes: The village appears to have been known locally as "Highchurch" as noted in Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765 reproduced in http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/110268/1.html [accessed 3 February 2009]
Church Address: Hawkchurch, Axminster EX13 5XD, UK -- Tel.: (01297) 678622
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km NE of Axminster, 10 km S of Somerset, at the border between Devon and Dorset
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: formerly in Dorset until 1896
Additional Comments: recycled font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Hawkchurch in the Domesday survey. Pulman (1854) writes: "The font, which is square and mounted upon a circular stem, is evidently of great antiquity, every indication of which, however, except the shape, is carefully concealed by the whitewash for which the majority of churchwardens have so much affection." Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font, which stands in the body of the church, against the centre pillar on the north side, is in the form of a rude Saxon column, with a square capital." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1952). Hoskins (1954) notes: "The name means "Hafoc's church," indicating the presence of a church here in pre-Conquest times. The present church (St. John the Baptist) though drastically restored in 1862 (except the tower) is still of considerable interest, retaining much of its Norman interior", but does not mention the font either. The present font consists of a basin that is quadrangular at the top, with very shallow sides decorated with a pair of flat mouldings, but becomes round with tapering sides to meet the top of the plain round column of the stem; lower base is round hardly any wider than the stem itself. The font may very well have been a recycled column with capital in a previous life. Quadrangular wooden cover, flat and probably oak, with metal decorations; modern?
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 504633 5627579
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.79993, -2.934255
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 47′ 59.75″ N, 2° 56′ 3.32″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 52
- Pulman, George P.R., The Book of the Axe: containing a piscatorial description of the stream, and a history of all the parishes and remarkable spots upon its banks […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, p. 259