Slapton nr. Dartmouth / Sladone

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bil Boaden, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2011 by Bill Boaden [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2505696] [accessed 23 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St James. Begun in the late 13th or early 14th C. the church has additionions in each successive century before being 'restored' in 1905." EXT NE digital photograph taken 23 June 2011 by Bill Boaden [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2505696] [accessed 23 November 2015] INT photograph taken August 1996 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1738219] [accessed 23 November 2015] Copyright 2010 FONT photograph taken August 1996 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1738222] [accessed 23 November 2015] Copyright 2010

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stuart Logan, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2013 by Stuart Logan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3889332] [accessed 23 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: photograph taken August 1996 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1738219] [accessed 23 November 2015]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: photograph taken August 1996 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1738222] [accessed 23 November 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14322SLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: 2 Brook Street, Slapton, Devon TQ7 2PW
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A379, 12 km SW of Dartmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Chillington [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1370?
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
There is an entry for this Slapton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SX8244/slapton/] [accessed 23 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Oliver (1841) reports a collegiate church founded at Slapton ca. 1370. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SX8213244989] (1967) cites: "Davidson states (1842) that the old font "recently reduced in size"." The font, at present, consists of an octagonal basin with plain re-tooled sides and a chamfered underbowl, also plain; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with broach stops that make it square at the bottom; the innner basin is lead-lined.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.293324, -3.656403
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 17′ 35.96″ N, 3° 39′ 23.05″ W
UTM: 30U 453245 5571451

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?
Material: wood, oak

REFERENCES

Oliver, George, Historic collections relating to the monasteries of Devon, Exeter: P. A. Hannaford, 1841