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INFORMATION

FontID: 17283VEN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory

Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A3052, S of Melcombe, 5 km SSW of Ottery St. Mary

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in 1876 in Hutchinson's diaries and sketchbooks (2010) as a plain octagonal font of Beer stone. The wooden cover is an octagonal dome, similar to the one at nearby Harpford.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Hutchinson, Peter Orlando, Diary of a Devon antiquarian: the illustrated journals and sketchbooks of Peter Olrlando Hutchinson, 1871-1894, Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove, 2010