Cubert / St. Cuthbert / Saint Cuthbert / St. Cubert
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B01: symbol - star - wheel - in a circle
Scene Description: Several mixed star symbols, mostly star wheel within a circle
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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BBL01: design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: a band of it, all around the lower basin side
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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BBU01: design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: a band of it, all around upper basin side
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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LID01: design element - architectural - building - church
Scene Description: the tower, at the transept, ends in a ball finial and serves as handle
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Image Source: Paley (1844)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01454CUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century / 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: 1 Churchtown, Cubert, Newquay TR8 5EZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1872 573025
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A3075, 6 km SW of Newquay
Font Notes:
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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”. Described and illustrated in Paley (1844) as a baptismal font of the Norman period: cylindrical basin supported on a central base which is round at top and square at bottom, plus four round corner shafts which start right at the upper rim of the basin and are adorned with several moldings; the basin itself is ornamented with a narrow band of fog-tooth motif at top and bottom, and several star motifs inside circles on the basin sides. The lid shown in Paley "is so original in design that we have been induced to give a sketch of it" (ibid.); it appears to be made of wood and is topped by a maquette of a church building with a tall pointed finial ended in a ball, not too dissimilar from font lids found on some Scandinavian fonts of the Romanesque period, although this one is most likely 18th-19th century. This font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as being of the Transitional [1150-1200] period. Cox (1912) lists it as one "of characteristically Cornish design", yet he adds: "Highly interesting late Norm[an] font differs from all others in county; square, with central and corner shafts, bowl adorned with elaborated circles and bands of star ornament in shallow relief." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. C13, circular, on the usual five supports (the outer with shaft-rings), the sides of the bowl with chip-carving of rosettes, stars, etc." Illustrated in A Snapt at the Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Cubert.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 349557 5582989
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.3797, -5.116
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 22′ 46.92″ N, 5° 6′ 57.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: No measurements given in Paley
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1844 / 19th century / Victorian
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 17, 89
- 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
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 15 et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 60