Honiton / Hunitone

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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "St Paul's Church, Honiton, was built in the late 1830s on the site of the medieval Allhallow's Chapel that had been rebuilt after a fire in 1765. It's unusual in that it lies north to south."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Paul's Church, Honiton, was built in the late 1830s on the site of the medieval Allhallow's Chapel that had been rebuilt after a fire in 1765. It's unusual in that it lies north to south."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 11 March 2011 by Robert Cutts [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Paul's_Church,_Honiton,_Devon_(5529506149).jpg] [accessed 4 August 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Source caption: "Honiton : St Michael's Church. The church has been facing an uncertain future for more than five years after a meeting in 2012 was told how the church was not very often used, was in need of tens of thousands of pounds of repairs, and attracted a fifth of the number of worshippers of St Paul’s Church, which has now become the Parish Church for the town."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Honiton : St Michael's Church. The church has been facing an uncertain future for more than five years after a meeting in 2012 was told how the church was not very often used, was in need of tens of thousands of pounds of repairs, and attracted a fifth of the number of worshippers of St Paul’s Church, which has now become the Parish Church for the town."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lewis Clarke, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 8 April 2018 by Lewis Clarke [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5740940] [accessed 3 August 2021]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Source caption: "St Paul's church, Honiton, Devon"
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Paul's church, Honiton, Devon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ruth Sharville, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 5 January 2017 by Ruth Sharville [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5250355] [accessed 4 August 2021]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "St Paul, Honiton, Devon - Font" [the modern font, located in the south aisle]
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Paul, Honiton, Devon - Font" [the modern font, located in the south aisle]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2020
Image Source: digital image of a 1982 photograph by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1726188] [accessed 4 August 2021]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 23396HON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: 99 High St, Honiton EX14 1PG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1404 44035 [the address for St Michael's is Waterleat Ave, Honiton EX14 2TT, UK]
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Honiton is located at the junction of the A35-A30-A373, 27 km NE of Exeter -- St Pail's is located off High St, in the centre of town -- St Michael's is located on a hill, in Waterfield Avenue
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of South Molton
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: original chapel on a hill dedicated to St Michael in 1406; re-built as church in 1491; became chapel of ease when new church of St Paul was built in the town centre; St Michael's badly damaged by fire in 1911
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Honiton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS6824/honiton/] [accessed 3 August 2021] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for Honiton St Paul's church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST1633100731] notes: "Parish Church. Completed 1838, Charles Fowler, Architect. Romanesque style with apse. 7 bays with round-arched aisle and clerestorey windows Galleries. Restored 1849"; it does not mention the font in it. The entry for Honiton St Michel's church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1306112] notes: "Former parish church, latterly a chapel of ease, and now closed for worship. Dates mainly from late C15. Interior destroyed by fire and rebuilt 1912. Metal corroding internally in arcaded capital heads. Leaking due to blocked valley gutters. The church was closed and, in early 2019, was handed to the Diocesan Board of Finance which has since arranged for urgent repairs to be undertaken. Historic England is in discussion with the diocese regarding the future of the building." [NB: we have no information on the font of the late-medieval church in Honiton; was it destroyed in the 1911 fire that ravaged St Michael's?].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.80039, -3.1882
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 1.4″ N, 3° 11′ 17.52″ W
UTM: 30U 486738 5627645