Bridford / Bredeford / Brideford / Bridgeford
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: photograph taken 13 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1731859] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis
Scene Description: ca. 1530? [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1993
Image Source: photograph taken 13 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1731866] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17942BRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Location: Church Lane, Bridford, Devon EX6 7HT
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km ENE of Moreton-Hampstead, 15 km SW of Exeter
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Wonford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 18th century,
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for Bridford [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX8186/bridford/] [accessed 24 August 2021] neither of which reports priest or church in it. Stabb (1908-1916) gives the consecration of the church as 1259 and notes the "remarkable fine" rood screen, but does not mention a font in this church. Hoskins (1954) notes that Henry VIII's rose and the Aragon pomegranate suggest a date ca. 1530. The baptismal font here consists of an octagonal basin with graded moulded sides, on an octagonal pedestal base where the centre ring moulding appears to narrow the pedestal at the centre, and a square lower base with double arched ends at the angles; on a square plinth that looks older than the font and may have belonged to its predecessor. [NB: we have no information on the original mid-13th century font here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 451937 5612237
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Hoskins, William George, Devon, London: Collins, 1954
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916