Tavistock / Tavistoke

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B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 14284TAV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Eustachius [aka St. Eustace's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Eustace [aka Eustachius]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A386, 24 km N of Plymouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is an entry in the Calendar of the Tavistock parish records from 1425-1426 that reads: (fontis baptisterii) ijd" [source: Tavistock Records, p. 8 [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Calendar_of_the_Tavistock_parish_records.djvu/22] [accessed 17 March 2009]]. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. The usual octagonal type of the C15, with shields in quatrefoils." Noted in the Parish web site [http://www.tavychurch.eclipse.co.uk/info.htm] [accessed 25 February 2009] as a font of the 15th century.

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