Gittisham / Gidesham
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14244GIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Gittisham
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Gittisham, Honiton EX14 3AH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1404 44035
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A30, 5 km ENE of Ottery St. Mary, 20 km ENE of Exeter
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Budleigh [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font
Font Notes:
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Wilson's Gazetteer (1870-1872) notes "a Norman font" in this church. Not mentioned in Stabb (1908), Pevsner (1952) or Hoskins (1954). The present font is octagonal with a tapering basin decorated with floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils; the underbowl also with floral motifs on the sides; the short octagonal stem with deeply-carved trefoiled (?) arches; on a plain octagonal lower base. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain. The whole thing appears Victorian but the entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY1336998365], which dates the church to: "Possibly C14 origins", confirms a late-medieval date for the font: "C15 octagonal font with quatrefoils carved on the bowl". [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]
REFERENCES
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [transcribed in http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=1841 [accessed 6 January 2010]]