Hawkchurch / Avekchurche / Havekchurch / Highchurch

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5356907] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2007 by Sealman [whttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawkchurch_Church.JPG] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5356865] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5356869] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - capital - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5356867] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5358114] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5358049] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5358066] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5358034] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5356981] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5358082] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5356907] [accessed 11 April 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image 2006 by Margaret Lewis [http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/hawkchurch-baptismalfont.jpg] [accessed 16 February 2006]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11496HAW

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [All Saints & St. Peter in earlier times?]

Church Location: Hawkchurch, Axminster EX13 5XD, UK -- Tel.: (01297) 678622

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?

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]

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.79993, -2.934255

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 59.75″ N, 2° 56′ 3.32″ W

UTM: 30U 504633 5627579

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

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