Lansallos No. 1 / Lansalwys

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

B02: symbol - tree - Tree of life

INFORMATION

FontID: 01470LAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ildierna / St. Salwys?
Church Patron Saints: St. Ildierna? / St. Salwys?
Church Location: Lantic Bay, Lansallos, Looe PL13 2PX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1726 870146
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located to the E of Fowey, just W of Polperro, in the Gribbin Head-Polperro Heritage Coast
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Lanteglos, St Cleer, St Martin, all in Cornwall.
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the late Norman period, a square basin supported on five shafts, like those at Lanteglos, St Cleer and St Martin. Cox (1912) adds: "curiously carved, but 5 supporting shafts are modern". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, square, with 'Tree of Life' and odd feur-de-lis ornament." K. Wasley's page on Lansallos [http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/lansallos.htm] [accessed 18 November 2009] notes: "The font comes from the earlier Norman Church. The marble pillars supporting it are Georgian, an anachronism, but rather a charming one in effect. Behind the font is the oldest monument in the church-half a Celtic font buried in a field at Highertown Farm. It may have been the original font that St. Salwys used over eleven hundred years ago."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.335611, -4.569417
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 20′ 8.2″ N, 4° 34′ 9.9″ W
UTM: 30U 388312 5577124

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970