Musbury

INFORMATION

FontID: 14254MUS
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 on the A358, 5 km SW of Axminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Date: 1562
Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Elizabethan / Tudor
Font Notes:
Noted in Pulman (1854): "the font is oddly placed [in the chancel] [...], is painted and has upon it the date 1562". Not mentioned in Stabb (1908) or in Pevsner (1952).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [1562]

REFERENCES

Pulman, George P.R., The Book of the Axe: containing a piscatorial description of the stream, and a history of all the parishes and remarkable spots upon its banks […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854