Whitchurch nr. Tavistock (Devon) [orig. from Fitzford]

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B01: symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B01: symbol - shield - emblem - cross - saltire

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2009 by Brian Eales

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B02: symbol - shield - emblem - cross - Latin

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2009 by Brian Eales

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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2009 by Brian Eales

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information

Image Source: pdf copy of Church Guide, p. 12 [sent by Brian Eales, Church Admin Office, with permission]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2009 by Brian Eales

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14337WHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located 3 km SE of Tavistock

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century (late?) / 19th century, Early Perpendicular? / Victorian?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Brian Eales, Church Administration Office, Whitchurch, Tavistock, for the photographs of, and information on this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Font. Plain, octagonal, with shields in the panels." The font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides, each panel decorated with a shiled charged, alternately, with Latin and saltire crosses; there are mouldings at the upper and lower rim of the basin; the underbowl is decorated with large square flowers; raised on a on octagonal stem with trefoil arches or niches on the sides; moulded lower base. The font has an odd look, perhaps due to the porous type of stone, and looks suspiciously modern, perhaps Victorian, though of Perpendicular design, but the Parish guide has it as late-14th century: "It was originally in Fitzford House in Tavistock, and Mary Fitz, Lady Howard, took it to Walreddon when she retired there. Later she gave the font to St. Andrew's Church". The wooden cover is octagonal, with handle; modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952