Boconnoc / Bochenod

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - double arcade (up and down)

Scene Description: on the central stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Boconnoc Church Cornwall - Dedication Unknown/ppages/ppage3.htm] [accessed 17 January 2021]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: The bottom of the columns come together forming a "V" at the junction with the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Boconnoc Church Cornwall - Dedication Unknown/ppages/ppage3.htm] [accessed 17 January 2021]

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design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: One on each of the eight sides of the basin, the tree-arm "S" trefoil

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Boconnoc Church Cornwall - Dedication Unknown/ppages/ppage3.htm] [accessed 17 January 2021]

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information

Image Source: digital image of a text and engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

Copyright Instructions: PD

symbol - cross - round arch

Scene Description: a cross over a round arch on each of the five sides of the capitals of the outer colonnettes

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Boconnoc Church Cornwall - Dedication Unknown/ppages/ppage3.htm] [accessed 17 January 2021]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Estate and Manor date from Norman times, and is recorded in Domesday. The house was rebuilt in the C16 by Sir William Mohun, whose descendants sold Boconnoc to Thomas (Diamond) Pitt in 1717. The purchase was funded by the sale of the famous Pitt Diamond for £54,000 which he had bought in 1701. Further additions were made to the house in 1771 by another Thomas Pitt (brother of William Pitt, Prime Minister and subsequently 1st Earl of Chatham). The Estate eventually passed from the Pitt family by a bequest to the Fortescue family in 1864, who have remained the owners ever since."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2013 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3559746] [accessed 17 January 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2013 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3559781] [accessed 17 January 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible in the foreground, left side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2013 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3559788] [accessed 17 January 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01449BOC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Boconnoc

Church Location: Unnamed Rd, Boconnoc, Lostwithiel PL22 0RG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1208 872232

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A390, 6-7 km ENE of Lostwithiel

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Historical Region: Hundred of Fawton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, by a pillar towards the W end

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font

Cognate Fonts: St. Neot and St. Goran, also in Cornwall

Church Notes: Church dedicated in 1321 but mostly now of the 15th century

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Boconnoc [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX1460/boconnoc/] [accessed 17 January 2021] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The font here is noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts of similar shape as the original fonts of Bormin, Roche, etc., “but evidently of a much later date”. Paley (1844), Cox (& Harvey (1907: 193) and Bond (1908: 46, 255) describ this as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period [NB: C&H list it erroneously as "Norman" on p. 189, but correctly, as Perpendicular, on p. 193] [Bond (ibid.) describes it as being of "retrogressive design"]. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. The most interesting object in the church: five supports, as in the C13, but the tracery decoration clearly of the C15 and of good quality." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX1463360557] notes: "Parish and manorial church, dedication unknown. Nave circa C14 with south aisle and short north chancel aisle (family chapel) circa late C15. South porch circa C16. South west turret attributed to George Matthew Fortescue who died in 1877. Restored in 1873. Repaired 1935 [...] Font, circa C15. Stone, on recarved octagonal base. Square with cushioned bowl decorated with cusped decorative patterns in circles. On tall cylindrical shaft with four engaged octagonal capitals to round shafts, one at each corner." The rounded octagonal basin is supported by a central polygonal shaft and four round colonnettes whose capitals form the four corners of the upper basin border. The basin is ornamented with eight circles containing a trefoil variation, the three-arm "S". The underbowl has a blind arcade motif with sixteen trefoil arches of high gothic appearance. The gothic arcade motif is repeated on the central shaft of the base, on two tiers, while the lower volume of the base is totally plain. Plain are also the four outer colonnettes but their bases have round mouldings and their capitals have five exposed sides, each with a cross motif at top and a round arch below.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.415889, -4.609018

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 24′ 57.2″ N, 4° 36′ 32.46″ W

UTM: 30U 385687 5586110

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Notes on Measurements: [No measurements given in Paley]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

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

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

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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

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