Chagford
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Van der Steen Hall Architects Ltd, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in Van der Steen Hall Architects Ltd. [http://www.vandersteenhall.co.uk/gallery.php?path=img/gal_15_b_lg.jpg&des=Chagford%20Church] [accessed 11 January 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14196CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NW of Moretonhampstead
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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Noted in Chagford Conservation Area Appraisal Dartmoor National Park Authority (Draft March 2005: 7) [http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/caachag02-2.pdf] [accessed 9 January 2009]: "the font discovered beneath the Church in 1865 (and reburied in the Rectory garden) is thought to have been 12th century Norman". A 1931 photograph of the interior [http://www.frithphotos.com/search/england/devon/chagford/photos/chagford_83910.htm] [accessed 9 January 2009] shows the same octagonal mounted font that is there now.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952