Landewednack

Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts of similar shape as the original fonts of Bodmin, Roche, etc., “but evidently of a much later date [...]. On the Landewednack font is the following inscription, which, from the character of the letters, does not seem to be of a later date than the reign of King Edward the Fifth [1272-1307]: 'Ihc---D. Ric. Bolham me fecit.'" Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes "a curious font" in the church of St. Lanty [cf. ChurchName field above]. Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818) [with reference to Lyson]. 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) suggests a date ca. 1280, in the Early English period [aka First Pointed] for this font." Blight (1862) writes: "The font [...], supported on a central pillar and four shafts, a form frequently met in Cornwall, is probably of the thirteenth century, and bears an inscription in early English characters, "I.H.C. D. Ric. (Dominus Ricardus) Bolham me fecit." Listed in Romilly Allen (1888) as one of several "later fonts with inscriptions of a religious nature". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a square mounted baptismal font; the square basin with rounded, protruding corners rests on a central stem of the same stone and four darker columns at the angles; it has an inscription naming a former rector, Bolham, who commissioned it. The columns of the base rest on a double plinth, also square. Described also in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example ca. 1400, bearing the name of the donor, Ric. Bolham, a former rector of the parish [NB: C&H list the font erroneously in the Norman/Transitional period in their county listing on p. 193]. There are ornamentation motifs on the sides: four-leave plants or flowers and other heart- and leaf-shaped motifs. C&H identify the material as granite [cf. infra]. Cox (1912) gives the years of Bolham's rectory as 1414-1415. Tyrrell-Green (ibid.) identifies the material of the angle shafts on this font as "the dark green serpentine of the rocks of the Lizard district"; he further (ibid.) describes this font as "an example of adherence in later days to an early type of font, of the same general appearance as the famous Bodmin group", and records the text of the inscription. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. With an inscription recording the name of a rector, no doubt the donor of the font. His dates at Landewednack are 1404-15; the type with the short corner columns is a simplified version of Bodmin."