St. Stephen-by-Launceston / Sen Stefan / St. Stephen juxta Launceston / Saint Stephen juxta Launceston
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BBL01: design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)
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BBL02: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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BBU01: design element - motifs - braid
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)
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Image Source: 5 July 1821 pencil-on-paper drawing by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/s/005add000036360u00193000.html] [accessed 13 November 2011]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00304LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Address: 11-19 Roydon Rd, Launceston Cornwall PL15 8HL, United Kingdom
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km N of Launceston, by the Golf Club on the A30, 40 km NNW of Plymouth
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of remarkable fonts in this county. Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818) [with reference to Lyson]. There is a 5 July 1821 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 36360 - Item number: f.193]. Blight (1856) notes the "Early English feeling […] which forms a band round the lower part of the bowl of the font in St. Stephen's church, Launceston" [and mentions its illustration in Journ. Arch. Camb. Fifth series, vol. xii]. Listed in Cox (1912) as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design": "Circular font, 42 in. high and 33 in diameter, is a good Norm[an] example; there is a triple cable moulding round rim, and a handsome flowing pattern at base of bowl." The font at St Stephen-by-Launceston has a bucket-shaped basin raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; there is a band of braid-like motif around the upper basin side, a band of foliage motif around ther lower side, and a rope moulding at the lower rim of the basin. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font decorated with a rope moulding among other motifs. Noted in Pevsner (1970) as "simple Norman". Noted and illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/StephenbyL.html] [accessed 23 November 2009]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX3247985700] notes: "Norman chancel surviving from collegiate church of Augustinian Priory founded 940AD which later moved to St Thomas (qv); consecrated 1259 and extended 1419 and early C16, restored 1883 […] Medieval holy water stoup in porch. Fittings: round Norman font of volcanic stone with 3 cabled cornice to round shaft on moulded rings to square base; cinquefoil headed aumbry niche to south wall of chancel; C18 holy water stoop in porch".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library for access to the copy of Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and to Jim Ingram, of the Preservation Services, Robarts Library, for the digital imaging of Lysons’ illustrations]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 403071 5611468
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.647, -4.371
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 38′ 49.2″ N, 4° 22′ 15.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]
REFERENCES
- "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 99
- Blight, John Thomas, Ancient crosses and other antiquities in the west of Cornwall, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1856, p. 328
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 17, 216
- 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: p. ccxxiii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 201
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, p. 95 and pl. xix / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 23 September 2007]