Milton Abbot

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: symbol - cross - the cross quarterly

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 14283MIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church od SS. Constantine and Aegidius [aka Giles]
Church Patron Saints: St. Constantine & St. Giles
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km WNW of Tavistock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Described in Worthy (1887): "The octagonal font is ornamented with quatrefoils, shields and the cross quarterly". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1952), who states: "No furnishings worth of notice."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952
Worthy, Charles, Devonshire parishes, or the antiquities, heraldry and family history of twenty-eight parishes in the Archdeaconry of Totnes, Exeter; London: William Pollard; George Redway, 1887