Roche nr. Bodmin / Roach / Tregarrek

Results: 12 records

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angel - cherub - 4

Scene Description: one at each basin corner; at least one of them, seen here on the right, is a modern reconstruction

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 1998 by BSI

animal - reptile - snake - 2 - intertwined

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the basin, their bodies rope-like

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 5

Scene Description: the capitals of the four outer colonnettes are the angels set at 90-degree angles of the basin; the bases are moulded and have spurs at the angles; the broad central shaft does not have a capital

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on several parts of the basin; the ones seen here on the left look like shells

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - sawtooth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 1998 by BSI

symbol - branch or tree - Tree of Life?

Scene Description: a large branch on each side of the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 1998 by BSI

symbol - cross - saltire? or "X" motif?

Scene Description: cartouche-like frame

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross

Scene Description: Source caption: "This large and very old celtic cross is to be found in Roche Churchyard."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2005 by Tony Atkin [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/342568] [accessed 17 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 August 2006 by Pam Brophy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/216888] [accessed 17 September 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2009 by Bill Henderson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1629343] [accessed 17 September 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The rock incorporates the ruined chapel, dedicated to St Michael, built in 1409. The rock is granite, a mixture of quartz and tourmaline. In Roche parish"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2011 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2428209] [accessed 17 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 July 1998 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00300ROC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gomonda

Church Patron Saints: St. Gonand [aka Goenandus, Gomond, Gomonda, Gonandus] -- Farmer (1987) suggests identification with Conan, Breton saint -- Gonand of the Rock?]

Church Location: 2 Trezaise Rd, Roche, Saint Austell PL26 8HB, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3274, 11 km SW of Bodmin

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Historical Region: Hundred of Powder

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end to the left of the S door (main entrance)

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font, Bodmin group

Cognate Fonts: Bodmin, St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulion, Newlyn, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan, and St. Wen

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Roche in the Domesday survey. 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 reports "a fine Norman font" in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a magnificent Norman font, sister to that of Bodmin; squared-top bowl has human faces at the angles from which issue non-constructional shafts; the lower part of the bowl is round and has floral and vegetable motifs; also a pattern that may be heraldic (?); the centre stem is slender. Listed in Cox (1912) as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design […] a fine example of Bodmin type." Hutton (1957) describes it as Transitional or Early English and adds that this type of ornamentation "persisted longer in Cornwall than elsewhere." (ibid.) Noted in Pevsner (1970) as Norman. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SW9879659796] notes: "Parish church. C14, largely rebuilt mid C15; in 1822 substantially altered for the Rev. Thomas Fisher, later alterations, probably to the south porch, and restoration of 1890 by J. D. Sedding. [...] The north transept is said to be on Norman foundations, largely rebuilt in the C14. The tower is of C15 [...] Fine late C12 Bodmin-type font in south aisle, in Pentewan stone; a large bowl on central stem with 4 corner shafts with bases. The shafts end in carved angels' heads, much restored and With one angel replaced. The bowl has interlaced snakes under chevron rim." On-site notes: there has been some restoration done on the font - one head, and, where the original lid hinges were broken off - these portions have been replaced. The basin has a central drainage hole; no lining.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.40358, -4.8333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 24′ 12.89″ N, 4° 49′ 59.88″ W

UTM: 30U 369720 5585110

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: not lined

Rim Thickness: 10 to 25 cm* [very irregular]

Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Basin Total Height: 54 cm*

Height of Base: 42 cm* (includes the first plinth on which the columns rest)

Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm* (includes the first level of plinths)

Font Height (with Plinth): 111 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 80 x 80 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

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

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970