Maker / Egloshayle / Magor / Makretone

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Results: 12 records

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B01: symbol - tree - Tree of life - lion - snake

Scene Description: Side 1 of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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B02: symbol - tree - Tree of life - lion - snake

Scene Description: Side 2 of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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B03: human figure - male - orant pose

Scene Description: the right half (cut off by the column)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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B04: human figure - male - orant pose

Scene Description: Arms raised; "orant"? -- towards the underbowl: the left half (cut off by the column)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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B05: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: tangled stem with a flower at each end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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B06: symbol - tree - Tree of life

Scene Description: above the right arm of the orant (?) figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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B07: animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: on the right hand side, towards the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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angel - cherub - 4

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 July 2000 by BSI

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01462MAK

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 2000-07-23

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bodmin type / Cornish font

Cognate Fonts: St. Stephen-in-Brannel and Bodmin fonts, both in Cornwall

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Julian [aka Macra?]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Julian [St. Macra?]

Church Address: Maker, Torpoint PL10 1JB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1752 822796

Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B3247, near Plymouth, from which it is separated by the Plymouth Sound. Closest town is Rame.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Historical Region: Hundred of East [partly in the Hundred of Roborough, Devon]

Font Notes: Click to view

There are two entries for Maker [variant spelling] in the Domesday Survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SX4452/maker/] [accessed 16 May 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is listed in Enlart (1902) as being of the type with four heads and five-support base. Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font that was brought to Maker from St. Merryn, near Padstow, in 1848, when the font of the ruined church of St. Constantine obtained shelter at St. Merryn. It is a Norman hemispheric basin of exceptionally fine and unusual design, square at the top, richly ornamented on the same plan as that of Bodmin. Like the latter, and several other such fonts, it is supported by a central stem and four detached shafts at the angles, with human head capitals projecting from the rim of the bowl. Only the basin, showing some repairs, is original. Cox (1912) lists this as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design […] a fine example of late Norm[an] of Caen stone, is of Bodmin type, and was brought here from church of St. Merryn". Noted in Pevsner (1970) as being originally from St. Merryn. In its entry for Merryn, the A Snap in Time website [www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Merryn.html] [accessed 19 November 2009] notes: "the font formerly in this church, a reduced facsimile of that at Bodmin, is now in the church of St Macra, at Maker; the font in use was removed from the ruined church of St Constantine in this parish".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 415685 5577917

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.3473, -4.1850

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 20' 50.26" N, 4° 11' 13.48" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Cornish Pentewan stone? / Caen stone?

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (square at top)

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 10 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm

Basin Depth: 23 cm

Basin Total Height: 57 cm

Height of Base: 40 cm

Height of Central Column: 20 cm

Height of Side Columns: 58-60 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 112 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 73 x 77 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 12, 17, 167, 175
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 190-191, 192
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 3; p. 782 footnote 2
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 112