St. Neot nr. Bodmin No. 1 / Neotestou / Nietestou / Saint Neot
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI
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Image Source: digital image of a 10 July 1821 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/s/005add000036360u00192000.html] [accessed 13 November 2011]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: rosettes, quatrefoil, cinquefoil, window, etc., seen here on the left side of the basin
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design element - motifs - trefoil - 8
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design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: a rosette, cinquefoil, quatrefoil, etc., seen here on the left side of the basin
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Gothic arches - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: seen here on the right side of the basin
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Scene Description: the present font cover is modern
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Scene Description: some authors date it to the 13thC [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01457NEO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-22
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century? [basin only] / 13th century [shaft only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: St. Goran and Boconnoc, also in Cornwall
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Neot
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Neot [aka Anietus]
Church Address: St. Neot, Liskeard PL14 6NG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1579 320472
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the A38, about 13 km Et of Bodmin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Historical Region: Hundred of Fawton
Additional Comments: altered font (base is a modern replacement) -- One last message sent in January 2003 to the vicar at St Neot asking for permission to publish pictures as rquested - request stated "if no answer we''ll take it as an OK" -- (no answer received to previous messages since the first November 2000 request] -- checked May 2004: no answer rec'd: we understand it as a tacit approval and proceed to use the images//mt
Font Notes:
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There are two entries [variant spellings] for Fawton the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX1867/st-neot/] [accessed 21 June 2021]
neither of which mentios a church in it, although the lords were canons [canons of St Neot's] in one entry and a priest [Godric the priest] in the other. There is a 10 July 1821 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 36360 - Item number: f.192]. Described and illustrated in Paley (1844) as a square mounted font of Norman structural design, but "it is, probably, fifteenth century workmanship", since many of the motifs appear to be from the later period rather than the earlier. The basin sides have a selection of motifs that give the font the appearence of a catalogue of motif samples; only one of the sides has a single motif, a blind arcade of trefoil arches; the other sides are a salad of Tudor roses, quatrefoils, stylised leaves, etc. The five columns of the base are plain, as is the plinth. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907: 189) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Bond (1908) describes it as being of "retrogressive design". Cox (1912) writes: "28 in. square, of Pentewan stone ; date of bowl with 8 traceried panels is doubtful, but central and 4 supporting shafts are E[arly] E[nglish]". Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. C15 bowl on C13 shaft, the E side in its design still derived from the Egloshayle type." [cf. Index entry for St. Neot No. 2 for a holy-water stoup listed for this church]
neither of which mentios a church in it, although the lords were canons [canons of St Neot's] in one entry and a priest [Godric the priest] in the other. There is a 10 July 1821 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 36360 - Item number: f.192]. Described and illustrated in Paley (1844) as a square mounted font of Norman structural design, but "it is, probably, fifteenth century workmanship", since many of the motifs appear to be from the later period rather than the earlier. The basin sides have a selection of motifs that give the font the appearence of a catalogue of motif samples; only one of the sides has a single motif, a blind arcade of trefoil arches; the other sides are a salad of Tudor roses, quatrefoils, stylised leaves, etc. The five columns of the base are plain, as is the plinth. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907: 189) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Bond (1908) describes it as being of "retrogressive design". Cox (1912) writes: "28 in. square, of Pentewan stone ; date of bowl with 8 traceried panels is doubtful, but central and 4 supporting shafts are E[arly] E[nglish]". Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. C15 bowl on C13 shaft, the E side in its design still derived from the Egloshayle type." [cf. Index entry for St. Neot No. 2 for a holy-water stoup listed for this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 389453 5593426
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.482383, -4.558195
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 28′ 56.58″ N, 4° 33′ 29.5″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Pentewan stone]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm* (24 at the corners)
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Basin Depth: 25 cm* / 27.94 cm**
Height of Basin Side: 35 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Height of Base: 45 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm* / 66.04 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 87 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 70-72 x 70-72 cm* / 71.12 x 71.12 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site ** Paley (1844)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: Original hinges evident
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 255
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 188
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 189, 193
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 3
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, [unpaged]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 197