Sydenham Damerel / Sidelham / South Sydenham
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Sydenham Damerel Church Devon - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 1 November 2017]
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view of church exterior - west tower - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nilfanion, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sydenham_Damerel_church_tower.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cornish Churches, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Sydenham Damerel Church Devon - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 1 November 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14326SYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Sydenham Damerel, Devon, PL19 8PU, UK
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B3362, S of Milton Abbot, 8 km WNW of Tavistock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Lifton
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Sydenham [Damerel] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SX4076/sydenham-damerel/] [accessed 1 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this parish in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: SX4093876005] reports: "The octagonal font is C15, the bowl supported on a truncated stem." There is no mention of the font in Stabb (1908- ), Pevsner (1952) or Hoskins (1954). The present font looks like it has been re-cut, and, perhaps, in the process, it got damaged; a large chunk of the basin has been repaired with dark cement, and a metal belt has been fitted all around the basin. Flat wooden font cover with metal locking mechanism and decoration.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 411630 5601867
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.562038, -4.247687
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 33′ 43.34″ N, 4° 14′ 51.67″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]