St. Sampson / Saint Sampson / Golant

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin: "As S face: dragon at the top, tail curled under; pair of confronted cats below, with long spiral-tipped tails" [CRSBI, 2019]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin: "As N face: dragon at top, tail curled under, pair of confronted cats below, with long spiral-tipped tails, but also a pair of flower-heads between and a single pellet under the neck of the dragon.[CRSBI, 2019]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin: two smirking lions facing out, their tails, greatly exagerated, raised on their rumps, below the passant dragon

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: one, right beneath the neck of the dragon

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 2

Scene Description: on the south side, between the dragon and the lions

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: just below the upper rim -- this side of the basin (east) is the only one that has retained the whole run of the pattern; the one on the south side is partly erased, and the one on the north and west sides has been completely chiseled off

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four -- this one on the northeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four -- this one on the southeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four -- this one, much damaged, on the southwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four -- this one, much damaged, on the northwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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symbol - tree - Tree of life

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin: ""Tree of life": a symmetrical plant with six pairs of branches." [CRSBI (2019)]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of basin - west side

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2018 by Amj2264 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Sampson’s_Church,_Golant,_grade_I_listed_building.jpg] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2009 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golant_st_samson_004.JPG] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Samson's Church: Looking to the nave from the south aisle. The two distinctive wagon roofs can be seen."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5100270] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 18 January 1992 by Richard Jewell [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5216/] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01458SAM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Sampson

Church Patron Saints: St. Samson [aka Sampson] [bishop of Dol † 565]

Church Location: Church Hill, St Sampson Golant, Fowey PL23 1LB, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located S of Lostwithiel and the A390

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No idividual entry found for St Sampson or Golant in the Domesday survey. Rashleigh and Reade (1885) note: "The font is of granite, and of a good octagonal pattern." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, one of several Cornish fonts ornamented with dragons or salamanders. Cox (1912) notes simply an octagonal font made of granite. Noted and illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Golant.html] [accessed 23 November 2009]. The octagonal basin is raised on an octagonal stem; both appear plain, except for two small mouldings [NB: were Cox & Harvey referring to a different font?]. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "the church is substantially 14thc with 15thc additions. It was restored in 1871. The font is the only Romanesque feature. [...] The font sits at the W end of the nave, towards the SW corner. Bowl, circular and cup-shaped, with four rudimentary human heads carved to meet four corner shafts. The bowl is also supported by a thicker central shaft. The shafts are plain without bases, and all apparently original. The side of the bowl is divided into four sections by the corner heads, each section is richly carved. Each face has a bold moulding, as a border below the lid. Described by Sedding as the "nebule" ornament, this is mostly chiselled off on the W side and N side, and slightly damaged on the S side. Of the corner heads only the SE is undamaged; the SW head has been broken off in the past and much is missing of its lower half; and on the N side they are almost chiselled away at the top. The bowl is of Pentewan. a hard white stone with some small mica inclusions. The supporting shafts are of a similar stone of yellower tint. The base is modern, of concrete. [...] E face: "Tree of life": a symmetrical plant with six pairs of branches. -- N face: As S face: dragon at the top, tail curled under; pair of confronted cats below, with long spiral-tipped tails. -- S face: As N face: dragon at top, tail curled under, pair of confronted cats below, with long spiral-tipped tails, but also a pair of flower-heads between and a single pellet under the neck of the dragon. -- W face: As E face, but hacked away at the tip in the middle. "[NB: the pairs of 'cats' are probably lions, carved with the characteristic tails curling on the their rumps].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.3662, -4.644

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 21′ 58.32″ N, 4° 38′ 38.4″ W

UTM: 30U 383080 5580640

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone -- Pentewan stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Basin Depth: 23 cm*

Basin Total Height: 35 cm*

Height of Central Column: 36 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 71 cm*

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-08-29 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

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

Rashleigh, Evelyn W., Notes on the Parish of Golant, alias St. Sampson's […] and Notes on the Church […], St. Blazey: J.T. Baker, 1885