Tavistock / Tauestoc / Tavistoke

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14284TAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Eustachius [aka St. Eustace's], Tavistock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eustace [aka Eustachius]
Church Address: 5A Plymouth Rd, Tavistock PL19 8AU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1822 616673
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A386, 24 km N of Plymouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Lifton
Additional Comments: famous person font? Sir Francis Drake may have been baptised here [he was born in 1540; the baptismal register records start in 1614]
Font Notes:
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, p. 276