Maker / Egloshayle / Magor / Makretone

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".