Lanteglos-by-Fowey / Lanteglos-juxta-Fowey / Lanteglos Highway

No entry found for Lanteglos in the Domesday survey. Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts that “are square, very little ornamented, and supported by a pedestal and four pillars”. Described and illustrated in Paley (1844), who mentions another octagonal-shaped inner well at Yate, Gloucs. [though of a later date]. Noted as Early English in Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865). Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a particularly good example of a Late Norman/Early English (i.e., Transition) [NB: this same source (ibid.) has the font listed as "Saxon -- doubtful"], square basin supported on five shafts made of a local granite (?) called "Pentewan stone" quarried near Mevagissey, Cornwall. The upper rim is adorned with a saw-tooth motif all around; the basin sides are ornamented with a vine done in very-deep relief. The basin well is octagonal inside [NB: Cox & Harvey (Ibid.) mention another font with an octagonal inner well at Yate in Gloucestershire]. Noted in Cox (1912) as a font of the Early English period: "30 in. square and 36 in. high, an excellent example of early I3th cent.; ribbed moulding round rim, flowing conventional foliage on bowl, and supported by shafts with well-moulded capitals and bases. Shafts of the font are Purbeck, but the bowl is of Pentewan stone." Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes the "conventional foliage" on the basin sides. The base consists of a broad round central pedestal and four slender detached colonnettes, all with bases; the whole rests on a plain square plinth. Very ornate tall wooden cover of a modern date, probably ca. 1906, the year of the Sedding restoration. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Early C13, on a Purbeck base with moulded capitals and bases. The bowl of Pentewan stone has stiff-leaf foliage." Noted in Leach (1975): the base and two of the shafts of the font only are made of Purbeck marble [source given: Professor E.M. Jope].