Ashburton / Essebretone
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 January 2022)
Results: 8 records
view of base - detail
Scene Description: the modern font of 1840
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 January 2022)
view of basin
Scene Description: the modern font of 1840
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the modern font of 1840
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Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 January 2022)
view of church exterior - tower in context
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Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover - east side
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover - west side
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 January 2022)
view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 January 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 23648ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 2 St Andrews Cl, Ashburton, Newton Abbot TQ13 7DT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3352, just W of the A38, at the E end of the Dartmoor National Park, 12 km WNW of Torquay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Teignbridge
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ashburton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX7679/ashburton/] [accessed 2 January 20220]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this church in History England [Listing NGR: SX7552769759] notes: "Parish church. Early or mid C15 (tower before 1449); restored by G E Street 1882-3 [...] Marble font, 1840." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.5144, -3.757
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 30′ 51.84″ N, 3° 45′ 25.2″ W
UTM: 30U 446329 5596100
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramidal wooden cover; modern with inscription