Venn Ottery / Fen Ottery / Venottery / Ven-Ottery

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17283VEN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gregory

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gregory the Great

Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom

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

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

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, p. 82