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Scene Description: the modern font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14244GIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A30, 5 km ENE of Ottery St. Mary, 20 km ENE of Exeter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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 terfoied (?) arches; on a plain octagonal lower base. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain. The whole thing appears Victorian. [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