St. Breock / Nanssans / Saint Breock / St. Breoke

INFORMATION

FontID: 01464BRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Breoke
Church Patron Saints: St. Brieuc [aka Breock, Breoke, Briavel, Brieg, Brioc, Briog, Briuc, Tyfrïog, Tyvriog]
Church Location: 1 Churchtown, St Breock, Wadebridge PL27 7JS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7539 928047
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just S of Wadebridge, about 40 km ENE of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Noted in Murray's Handbook for the traveller […] (1865) as a "very fine font" of the Decorated period. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period made of local Catacleuse stone. Cox (1912) notes: "Small octagonal 15th cent, font of wellwrought Catacleuse stone […] dark Catacleuse stone, sometimes mistaken for Purbeck". Pevsner (1970) has it simply as a font of the 15th century. Illustrated in A Sanp at the Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Breock-St.html] [accessed 13 November 2009]. The sides and underbowl of the octagonal basin are decorated with busy tracery motifs, the sides with large quatrefoils inscribing floral motifs; roll moulding below; plain cylindrical stem; on a two-step lower base, and an octagonal plinth with kneeling extension.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.511, -4.854
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 30′ 39.6″ N, 4° 51′ 14.4″ W
UTM: 30U 368547 5597090

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Catacleuse stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; date unknown

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970