St. Buryan No. 2 / St. Burian / Saint Burian

INFORMATION

FontID: 01087BUR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Buriana
Church Patron Saints: St. Buryan [aka Burien, Buriana]
Church Location: Penzance Rd, St Buryan, Penzance TR19 6BA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1736 810216
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km E of Land's End, about 10 km WSW of Penzance on the B3283
Font Location in Church: In the porch, NE angle
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.075278, -5.622778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 4′ 31″ N, 5° 37′ 22″ W
UTM: 30U 312338 5550295

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