Throwleigh / Throwley
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14330THR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St.. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10-11 km ESE of Okehampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Perp[endicular] on a heavy moulded pillar with low bowl with compressed quatrefoil decoration." The Parish web site [http://www.throwleigh.org/] [accessed 17 March 2009] notes: "Granite font is C15; plain octagonal bowl with moulded stem and plinth and has C19 or C20 oak cover."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th - 20th-century
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952