Exeter No. 11 / Execestre / Exonia

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

Results: 8 records

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the 19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the 19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the 19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the 19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nilfanion, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 December 2012 by Nilfanion [whttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Olave's_Church,_Exeter_(9213).jpg] [accessed 22 December 2012]

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: view from the west side of the chancel screen

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2018 by Pymouss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exeter_-_St_Olave's_Church_20181027-02.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2019]

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: early-20thC

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © libscouse, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2018 by libscouse [www.flickr.com/photos/35041609@N07/28730989157/in/photostream/] [accessed 22 December 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13582EXE
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Olave
Church Patron Saints: St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]
Church Location: Fore St, St Olave's Cl, Exeter EX4 3TP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off Fore St, E of the river and the A377
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Wonford
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the modern font here
Church Notes: founded 1053 as private chapel for Gytha, King Harold's mother; re-built 14thC; restored 19thC
There are eighteen entries for Exeter [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX9292/exeter/] [accessed 13 May 2018], of which two mention a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX9181892466] notes: "C14 and C15. [...] Restored 1815 and 1874"; no font mentioned. The stone font is modern, consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with figural scenes on the sides; moulded underbowl; octagonal pedestal stem with blank arcade on the sides; graded moulding on the octagonal lower base. Modern wooden cover with four ribs on flat octagonal base with donor information inscription on the edges; four-petal floral finial. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the medieval church(es) here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.721697, -3.533884
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43′ 18.11″ N, 3° 32′ 1.98″ W
UTM: 30U 462314 5619013