Mevagissey / Mevagizzey
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B1R01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6 petals
Scene Description: a row around the upper third of the basin sides
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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B2R01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle
Scene Description: A row of them all around the middle third of the basin sides
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B3R01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6 petals
Scene Description: A row of them all around the bottom third of the basin sides
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BBL01: design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: Around the lower rim of the basin
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BBU01: design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: around the upper rim
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LB01: design element - motifs - rope
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01452MEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [originally of St. Meva and Issey (Ida)]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle, W of the door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [originally dedicated to St. Meva [aka Mewan] and Issey [aka Ida]]
Church Address: 8 Church Ln, Mevagissey, Saint Austell PL26 6SX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1726 842487
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3273, in the Bay of the same name, 8 km S of St. Austell
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of remarkable fonts in this county. Baptismal font dated to the Norman period in Paley (1844), Murray (1865), Cox & Harvey (1907), Cox (1912) and Bond (1908) consisting of a bucket-shaped basin mounted on a cylindrical base and a two-step plinth; the upper rim has a zig-zag motif; the basin sides are ornamented with a row of flowers (6-petal) at top, another row of flowers (mixed) in circles in the middle and another row of flowers like that at the top. The bottom rim of the basin has a zig-zag motif. the round base has two plain torus, top and bottom, and a middle one with rope motif. The plinth is round too. Paley (ibid.) reports the font as having been moved from its original position next to the western-most pillar of the nave to its present [ca. 1844] position in the north aisle, west of the door, and also identifies the stone as "a kind of porphyry, dug from the neighboring quarry of Pentewan, near St. Austell". [NB: Pentewan is actually closer to Mevagissey -3 km- than it is to St. Austell -5km]. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, circular, with chip-carved rosettes, etc., a herringbone moulding above, a zigzag moulding below, and a cable moulding on the base."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 372398 5570594
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.273682, -4.790715
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 16′ 25.25″ N, 4° 47′ 26.57″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Cornish Pentewan stone
Number of Pieces: two (+ plinth)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: a/p Paley (1844: unpaged)
Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: Paley's illustration (1844: unpaged) shows a round flat wooden lid
REFERENCES
- "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 99
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 45, 47, 147, 155 and ill on p. 41
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 176
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 189, 193
- 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
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 268 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=V_YGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22roborough+stone%22&source=bl&ots=2ZhOkO8ZIn&sig=RriwKcw-zwLPfFdGUaHE7WccPgU&hl=en&ei=QRWkSZHXMYjTnQe2ud2pBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR5,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, unpaged
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 119
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79, 80