West Alvington
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B01: design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph [http://www.westalvingtonpc.co.uk/resources/_wsb_317x229_church+002.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2009]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © West Alvington Parish Council, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph [http://www.westalvingtonpc.co.uk/resources/_wsb_317x229_church+002.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 14331ALV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located just WSW of Kingsbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [originally under the tower -- cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century [re-carved?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Octagonal, of the usual Perp[endicular] type, but with leaf decoration in the eight panels which looks C17 rather than C15." Described and illustrated in the Parish web site [http://www.westalvingtonpc.co.uk/9.html] [accessed 17 March 2009]: "The late medieval 15th Century octagonal font has eight panels, decorated with leaves, surrounding the lead-lined bowl. Four of these are crudely carved and were possibly turned to the wall when the font was originally under the tower. The supporting column and base are recent additions. The lid of iron-studded oak is probably 19th Century."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952