Bovey Tracey / Bovi / Bovitracy / Buvvy / South Bovey
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1993
Image Source: photograph taken 13 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1730468] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the re-carved 15th-century font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1993
Image Source: photograph taken 13 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1730483] [accessed 28 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Harper, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 February 2012 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2831531]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14193BOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter, St. Paul and Thomas of Canterbury
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter, St. Paul and St. Thomas of Canterbury
Church Location: Bradley Road, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9EN
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NNE of Newton-Abbot
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut in 19th century?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Font Notes:
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Stabb (1908- ) describes this font as unremarkable and "of late date". Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Usual octagonal Perp[endicular] type with quatrefoil panels". The font consists of an octagonal basin with quatrefoiled panels containing blank shileds and floral motifs; floral motifs on the sides of the underbowl chamfer; pairs of trefoiled arches or windows on the sides of the octagonal pedestal base; octagonal lower base with graded mouldings; entirely re-cut and re-carved. The octagonal pyramidal cover is said to be mid-17th century; has been painted a striking blue and white.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 452435 5604782
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century? (mid?)
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: octagonal pyramid with large avian finial; the sides painted blue and white
REFERENCES
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