Salcombe Regis / Selcome
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mick Melvin, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2005 by Mick Melvin [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/23542] [accessed 18 January 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14216SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1107?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Mary, Salcombe Regis
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Mary
Church Address: Dunscombe Ln, Salcombe Regis, Sidmouth EX10 0JH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1395 515963
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A3052, 3 km ENE of Sidmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of Budleigh [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: emailed the Vicar at Salcombe Regis asking for info + photos of the old font (18 Jan 2009) -- Vicar (Roger Trumper) responded (email of 19 Jan 2009) that there is an ancient font and that he will send a picture when he takes the photo
Font Notes:
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Hutchinson's diaries and sketchbooks (2010) recorded a font and cover in 1874; the stone font consists of a polygonal basin with plain chamfered sides, on a round moulded stem and a square lower base; the wooden cover is is a polygonal dome with a dove finial. The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1216101?section=official-list-entry] [accessed 4 July 2025
notes: "The octagonal font on a round base is a plain medieval piece: it has a Jacobean ogee-shaped font cover." The font is illustrated in Britain Express [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/devon/churches/salcombe-regis.htm] [accessed 4 July 2025].
[NB: we have not been able to find any information on the font of the early 12th-century [ca. 1107?] yet White's Directory of 1850 and the National Gazetteer of 1868 [cited in http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/SalcombeRegis/#ChurchHistory [accessed 18 January 2009]] report an earlier chapel-of-ease here dedicated to St. Clement and St. Mary Magdalene, but we have no information on any font in it]
notes: "The octagonal font on a round base is a plain medieval piece: it has a Jacobean ogee-shaped font cover." The font is illustrated in Britain Express [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/devon/churches/salcombe-regis.htm] [accessed 4 July 2025].
[NB: we have not been able to find any information on the font of the early 12th-century [ca. 1107?] yet White's Directory of 1850 and the National Gazetteer of 1868 [cited in http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/SalcombeRegis/#ChurchHistory [accessed 18 January 2009]] report an earlier chapel-of-ease here dedicated to St. Clement and St. Mary Magdalene, but we have no information on any font in it]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined [modern; wraps over the upper rim]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Hutchinson, Peter Orlando, Diary of a Devon antiquarian: the illustrated journals and sketchbooks of Peter Olrlando Hutchinson, 1871-1894, Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove, 2010, p. 54