St. Neot nr. Bodmin No. 1 / Neotestou / Nietestou / Saint Neot

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

Scene Description: seen here on the right side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: a rosette, cinquefoil, quatrefoil, etc., seen here on the left side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - trefoil - 8

Scene Description: seen here on the right side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: rosettes, quatrefoil, cinquefoil, window, etc., seen here on the left side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI

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Scene Description: some authors date it to the 13thC [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI

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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 an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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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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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI

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Scene Description: the present font cover is modern

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 22 July 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 01457NEO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Neot

Church Patron Saints: St. Neot [aka Anietus]

Church Location: St. Neot, Liskeard PL14 6NG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1579 320472

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located N of the A38, about 13 km Et of Bodmin

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Historical Region: Hundred of Fawton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century? [basin only] / 13th century [shaft only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.482383, -4.558195

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 28′ 56.58″ N, 4° 33′ 29.5″ W

UTM: 30U 389453 5593426

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Pentewan stone]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

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

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912

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

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

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

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