Milton Abbot

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14283MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century (?), Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of SS. Constantine and Aegidius [aka Giles]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Constantine & St. Giles
Church Address: Fore St, Milton Abbot, Tavistock PL19 0PA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1822 870384
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km WNW of Tavistock
Additional Comments: disappeared font? {the one from the 14th-15thC church here)
Font Notes:
Described in Worthy (1887): "The octagonal font is ornamented with quatrefoils, shields and the cross quarterly" [descrbing what appears to be a late-19th century font]. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1952), who states: "No furnishings worth of notice." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX4072579283] mentions a 19th-century font in it: "The font is probably C19 with an octagonal bowl carved with blind quatrefoils alternating with other motifs on an octagonal stem with blind traceried panels. "

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 206
  • 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, vol. 1: 294 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=sgcVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=lamerton+church+font&source=bl&ots=7tuSX1lDWd&sig=AP8wFkxEZsyUbnUi_FgyE5b1S6g&hl=en&ei=2xGkSbvmNIS6nQfnxP2qBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA19,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]