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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
Font ID: 14295MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1450?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A380, 5 km NE of Torquay, 8 km ENE of Totnes
Additional Comments: permission to use the postcard, and its date if known, image requested (4 March 2009)
Font Notes:
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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".
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
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 204