St. Buryan No. 2 / St. Burian / Saint Burian
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01087BUR
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Buriana
Font Location in Church: In the porch, NE angle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Buryan [aka Burien, Buriana]
Church Address: Penzance Rd, St Buryan, Penzance TR19 6BA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1736 810216
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km E of Land's End, about 10 km WSW of Penzance on the B3283
Additional Comments: damaged stoup: reported as "mutilated" ca. 1862
Font Notes:
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Blight (1862) reports "a mutilated stoup" in the porch without further details. Cox (1912) notes "a stoup in the N.E. angle" of the granite porch. [cf. Index entry for St. Buryan No. 1 for a medieval baptismal font listed for this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 312338 5550295
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.075278, -5.622778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 4′ 31″ N, 5° 37′ 22″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite?
REFERENCES
- Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 1]", 212, March 1862, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1862, pp. [247]-256; p. 255
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 72