Dulverton
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font at the back, by the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 March 2007 by Tony Ethridge
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14724DUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 21 km NW of Tiverton, near the county border with Devon
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photographs of the modern font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Kelly's Directory of 1883 mentions the removal of the font to its proper place some years earlier. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with cusped quatrefoil panels on the sides, an inscription around the upper rim, and florons on the underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with trefoiled arches or windows on the sides, the lower base moulded; on an octagonal plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. Both pieces probably date from the 19th-century major renovation of the church. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the 14th-century church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 461508 5655028
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883