Taddiport / Tadyporte

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view of church exterior - southeast view

the chapel in 2011
Scene Description: the chapel in 2011
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Bashford, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 1999 by Stephen Bashford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/82003] [accessed 20 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

notice the top of the modern font in the foreground, right side
Scene Description: notice the top of the modern font in the foreground, right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © StMichaelsTorrington, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph in www.stmichaelstorrington.org.uk/taddiport church.html [accessed 20 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17805TAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1311?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Taddiport, Devon, EX38 8AT
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Great Torrington, 3 km N of Little Torrington, in North Devon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Shebbear
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Hussell (1910) notes that this church "is a building dating at least from 1311 [...] 'juxta pontem de Chepyngtoritone' [...] it was attached to a Leper Hospital which stood on the ground adjacent to it [...] The font is modern stone one". The British Listed Buildings database [http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-91749-chapel-of-st-mary-magdalene-little-torrin] [accessed 20 December 2011] describes the modern font: "Late C19 octagonal Perpendicular style". [NB: the modern font is located in the nave, just west of the south entrance -- we have no information on the earlier font of this chapel].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 418850 5644658
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.947826, -4.155204
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 52.18″ N, 4° 9′ 18.73″ W

REFERENCES

  • Hussell, Allen T., North Devon Churches: Studies of some of the ancient buildings, Barnstaple: Printed at the 'Herald' Press, 1910, p. 64