Princetown
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 January 2022)
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view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 January 2022)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 January 2022)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 January 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 23658PRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael / St. Michael and All Angels [redundant, but still consecrated with occasional services]]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael / St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Tavistock Rd, Princetown PL20 6RE, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3357, 12 km E of Tavistock, near the middle of Dartmoor National Park
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1810?
Century and Period: 19th century (early?), Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: present church 1810-1814; only church in England to have been built by prisoners of war (Napoleonic & American wars) -- redundant since November 1995, in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust since 2001
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry found for Princetwon in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX5868173714] notes: "Church. c1810-14" [no font mentioned]. The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin on a round baluster-shaped pedestal base on a two-step square lower base. Presumably from the same date as the church itself, ca. 1810. Wooden cover on it. According to Legendary Dartmoor [https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/prince_church.htm] [accessed 9 January 2022], Rev. James Holman Mason was responsible for the design of the font: "He also submitted to the Board his design for a font which was approved and the work given to a mason called Winnie."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.546111,
-3.996111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 32′ 46″ N,
3° 59′ 46″ W
UTM: 30U 429424 5599826
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle