Luxulyan / Logsulyan / Luxilion / Luxillian / Luxulian / Luxullian

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Scene Description: it has an avian body, without the usual tail (unless the curled snake to the right is meant to be the tail of the beast)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Scene Description: its tail all curled up

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant-gardant - 2

Scene Description: smiling and cat-like, but the position of their tails suggests their leonine nature

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: appears to be striking at the animal opposite

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: appears to be biting its tail; it may be that it is meant to be the tail of the dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: appears to be engaged in a fight with the lion opposite; is it standing on the back of a quadruped?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - unidentified

Scene Description: at the bottom right-hand corner; there is another such on another side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

animal - unidentified

Scene Description: is it a snake? if so, what is it standing on, the back of a quadruped?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - inverted

Scene Description: towards the centre-right, below the dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - inverted - 2

Scene Description: in the top corners, one on each side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped - beaded-tape

Scene Description: a band of, all around below the rim, interrupted by the four protruding heads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

human figure - head - 4

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

symbol - tree - Tree of life - beaded tape

Scene Description: the central stem is made of beaded tape

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - tombstone

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - gate

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - gate

Scene Description: the southwest corner of the tower in the background

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - tombstone

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - clock tower

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01459LUX

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cyriacus and St. Julitta [aka St Ciricius & St Julitta]

Church Patron Saints: St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] & St. Julitta [NB: may have been dedicated originally to St Sulien, aka Sulian]

Church Location: Luxulyan, Cornwall, PL30 5EA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1726 817665

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Luxulyan is about 10 kms S of Bodmin, about the same distance E of Roche

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Historical Region: Hundred of Powder

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end [its original location; it was for years elsewhere in the church]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font

Cognate Fonts: Bodmin, St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan and St. Wen

Church Notes: A holy well (St. Cyr) exists in this town

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry for Luxulyan found in the Domesday Survey. The Lysons (1806-1833) note here one of a group of Cornish fonts that includes Bodmin, “St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulion, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan, and St. Wen”. Noted in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851): "The bowl which is round, very large and massive, is supported by a circular shaft; there are heads at the corners resting on plain shafts without base mouldings. The bowl is ornamented with dragons rudely but spiritedly cut, lions, and other curious animals: the whole, as at South Hill and Kea, stands upon a solid base of granite". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font ornamented with dragons or salamanders. Bond (1908) lists this font as having salamanders depicted on it [although, as with most of these reports in Bond, they are probably simply dragons]. Cox (1912) notes a font of Pentewan stone in this church, one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design [...] Norm[an] font is good example of square type, with angle shafts terminating in heads, like those of Bodmin and St. Austell." Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists it as a font of the Bodmin group. Noted in Pevsner (1970) as "almost identical with St. Austell." On-site notes: Cornish-type font with a hemispheric basin with a central support and suspended from four corner shafts topped with heads. The sides of the basin are ornamented with 1)Tree of life; 2)lion and serpent; 3)lion and serpent; 4)2 lions with serpent. The carving is much less representational than the one on the Bodmin font. At least two of the heads which top the corner shafts are not original. The central column of the base has a large base of two volumes, rounded upper and square lower.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.389536, -4.741797

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 23′ 22.33″ N, 4° 44′ 30.47″ W

UTM: 30U 376186 5583393

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone / Pentewan stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 9 - 17 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm

Basin Depth: 23 cm

Basin Total Height: 36 cm

Height of Base: 45 cm

Height of Central Column: 25 cm

Height of Side Columns: 65 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 120 cm

Square Base Dimensions: 44 x 44 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; r["References"]

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VI", 51, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1919, pp. 211-221; r["References"]

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

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

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

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

Tisdall, M. W., God's beasts: identify and understand animals in church carvings, England: Charlesfort Press, 1998?

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928