Chagford / Cageford / Chageford
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Scene Description: the modern font
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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
Font ID: 14196CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Chagford
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Parish Church, Chagford, Newton Abbot TQ13 8BN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1647 432265
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A382, 5 km NW of Moretonhampstead
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Dartmoor / Hundred of Wonford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / buried and re-buried font (the one from the 12thC(?) church here)
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. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX7014287510] notes: "Parish church. It appears to be a complete C15 rebuild of an earlier church [...] Granite Perpendicular style octagonal font carved by a local mason, John Aggett, and dedicated to the memory of Katherine Hayter-Hames who died less than a year old in 1856. The oak coved canopy is richly carved in Gothic style."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 76