Cuby nr. Tregony / Cubye / Sen Kubi / St Cuby-Tregony
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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon
Scene Description: on the west side: the dragon, facing left and with characteristic looped tail, has been crudely executed
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B02: animal - reptile - snake - 2 - intertwined
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B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: though crudely exectuted it can be identified by the characteristic tail over the back
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B04: animal - reptile - snake - 2 - intertwined
Scene Description: the area where the snakes intersect has been damaged
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BBU01: design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: in the centre part of the upper basin side
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BBU02: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: on both side of the saw-tooth motif
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BH01: human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles, forming the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral, concentric circles, etc.
Scene Description: though the other three sides of the underbowl contain a plant-in-a-circle [Tree of Life?] motif, this side is rather abstract and quite different from the others
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BU02: symbol - plant - in a circle (Tree of Life?)
Scene Description: one of three distinct plant-in-a-circle symbols which be a reference to the Tree of Life -- note the two paddle-like incised motifs stemming from the lower ends of the snakes
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BU03: symbol - plant - in a circle (Tree of Life?)
Scene Description: one of three distinct plant-in-a-circle symbols which be a reference to the Tree of Life
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BU04: symbol - plant - in a circle (Tree of Life?)
Scene Description: one of three distinct plant-in-a-circle symbols which be a reference to the Tree of Life
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the central and outer shafts of the base
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view of font
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view of font
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Millman, 2004
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00250CUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-23
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font
Cognate Fonts: Those of the same shape all over Cornwall, e.g.: Bodmin, St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulyan, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan and St. Wen
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuby [originally from St James' in Old Tregony?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuby [aka Cubi, Cubye, Cybi, Kebi]
Church Notes: The old parish church of Tregony which lies in the lower part of town was dedicated to St. James and was a pilgrimage departure site for Spain's Santiago de Compostela; the church was abandoned in 1533. The present parish church is in the upper part of town.
Church Address: Cuby, Tregony SW 94 NW, UK
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Cuby is off the B3287, just NE of Tregony; Tregony is about 12 km SW of St Austell, 12 km E of Truro, and not far from Roche and Bodmin, which have cognate fonts of the Cornish type
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Historical Region: Hundred of Powder
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts that includes Bodmin, “St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulion, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan, and St. Wen”. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 mentions "a font curiously sculptured." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908): Norman polypod baptismal font of the 13th century with non-constructional pillars; of a group of Cornish fonts that Bond (ibid.) describes as "quite sui generis", with "a physiognomy quite their own" that managed to survive since the 12th into the 15th century. Listed in Cox (1912) as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design […] Good square Norm[an], font, supported by central and 4 corner shafts, with angels' heads as capitals ; bowl diversely ornamented, on W. a dragon, and on N. a conventional lily." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Late Norman, Bodmin type, with the same heads at the corners, and motifs of animals, knots, and trees of life between." The St. Cuby font has, like the others of this type, a hemispheric bowl resting on a central shaft and four non-constructional colonnettes at the corners; these reach all the way to the top of the basin. The top pillars of the corner shafts have winged heads; the basin and underbowl sides have ornamentation that includes schematic animals, symbols (cross, plant, flower) and several other motifs (circles, concentric circles, etc.). The base of the central pillar has foliage ornamentation. The whole is raised on a square plinth. It is not perhaps as accomplished as the Bodmin and Roche fonts, also in Cornwall, but it is of the same type. Listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SW9276245254]: "Norman font is round carved bowl over round central shaft with corner lugs carved with heads to form capitals of 4 shafts supported on moulded and carved bases". The font is said to have been originally from the church of St. James now abandoned [NB: Lysons (1814) writes of a church dedicated to St James "on the north side of the town flood, what is called Old Tregony", still standing ca. 1736; its advowson belonged to the Abbaye de Valle, in Normandy, which would suggest at least a 11th-12th century date; St James' was given by that abbey "to the Prior and convent of Merton, in Surrey" in 1267].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 363942 5570491
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.270862, -4.909287
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 16′ 15.1″ N, 4° 54′ 33.43″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: cauldron (square top)
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 6-7 cm (18 cm at corners)
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm
Basin Depth: 27 cm
Basin Total Height: 44 cm
Height of Base: 43 cm
Height of Central Column: 25 cm
Height of Side Columns: 48 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 117 cm (2 plinths)
Trapezoidal Basin: 64 x 64 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: modern lid, round with cross-handle
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 45,46,57,144,153,155,199,206, ill. p.41
- Clapham, Alfred William, English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934, p. 155
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; p. 217
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VI", 51, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1919, pp. 211-221; p. 213
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 17, 89
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50909] [accessed 26 January 2007]
- Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. III: ccxxiii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 61
- Tisdall, M. W., God's beasts: identify and understand animals in church carvings, England: Charlesfort Press, 1998?, ill. 194, p. 99; ill. 412, p. 206