Musbury / Musberie

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14254MUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1562
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid), Elizabethan / Tudor
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Musbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Church Hill, Musbury, Axminster EX13 8BA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1297 552307
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A358, 5 km SW of Axminster
Historical Region: Hundred of Axmouth [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: painted font [does it mean whitewashed?]
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 Text: [1562]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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, p. 405 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=7vcGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=hawkchurch+church&source=bl&ots=TjjxLXpAV-&sig=_dtNZhp4BN5ikgeudqfOs24TWIU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 3 February 2009]