Dartmouth No. 2

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view of basin and cover in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth, Devon."

Image Source: digital photograph 18 November 2009 by Jim Linwood [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Saviours_Church,_Dartmouth.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth"

Image Source: digital photograph 12 March 2013 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Saviour's_Church,_Dartmouth_(0520).jpg] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 November 2021)

view of font and cover in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 November 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 14224DAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Saviour

Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ

Church Location: Church Close / Anzac St, Dartmouth TQ6 9DL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1803 835540

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A3122, 40 km S of Exeter

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, towards the W

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: 14thC church; modified 1630s; renovated 1890s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entriy for Dartmouth found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX8776651330] notes: "Church building had commenced earlier in the C14 but it was enlarged in the late C14/early C15 [...] major refurbishment of 1633-7 [...] Further renovation in 1891-3 by Ashworth; later repairs in 1932 and 1956 [...] Plain C14 stone font with circular stem and octagonal bowl." Noted in The Parish of Dartmouth site: [http://www.parishofdartmouth.co.uk/saviours.htm] [accessed 19 January 2009]: "The font is of Purbeck stone and dates from the 13th or possibly early 14th Century. The lid is of wood and modern." Not in Pevsner (1952).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.35111, -3.5791

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 21' 4.0" N, 3° 34' 44.8" W

UTM: 30U 458801 5577830

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Number of Pieces: 3?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]