Marldon

Image copyright © Michael Alcock, 2009

Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2009)

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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Alcock, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Michael Alcock, of the Marldon Local History Group for BSI in March 2009

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2009)

BU01: design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Alcock, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Michael Alcock, of the Marldon Local History Group for BSI in March 2009

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2009)

LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Alcock, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Michael Alcock, of the Marldon Local History Group for BSI in March 2009

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2009)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Alcock, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Michael Alcock, of the Marldon Local History Group for BSI in March 2009

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2009)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: taken from the altar (east) side; the screen was added ca. 1890

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Alcock, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Michael Alcock, of the Marldon Local History Group for BSI in March 2009

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 13 March 2009)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: postcard, date unknown [ca. 1920?] supplied by Tony Chidlow, MLHS [http://www.marldonhistory.co.uk/html/church_5.html] [accessed 5 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 14295MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A380, 5 km NE of Torquay, 8 km ENE of Totnes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1450?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michael Alcock, of the Marldon Local History Group, for his photographs and measurements of this font. We are also grateful to Tony Chidlow, of the MLSG, for the old postcard showing the font in context
Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Usual octagonal Perp[endicular] type". Noted in the Marldon Local History Group web page [http://www.marldonhistory.co.uk/html/marldonhist.html] [accessed 4 March 2009]: "the font being contemporary with the 1450 building".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*
Basin Depth: 22 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm*
Height of Base: 53 cm [calculated: 38 + 15]
Height of Central Column: 38 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm [calcualted]
Notes on Measurements: * [supplied by Michael Alcock, Marldon Local History Group]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952