Salcombe Regis
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view of church exterior - south view
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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
FontID: 14216SAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Mary
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A3052, 3 km ENE of Sidmouth
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1107?
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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. [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
LID INFORMATION
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