Forrabury / Bottreaux
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Results: 4 records
B01:
design element - patterns - reticular
Scene Description: lightly incised; varies from side to side
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CR01:
design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of font and cover
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Forrabury & Minster Parish Council, 2005
Image Source: www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 01474FOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Symphorian
Church Patron Saints: St. Symphorian [Symphorien d'Autun] [† ca. 200]
Church Location: Forrabury Stitches, Boscastle PL35 0DJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 250359
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located not far from Davidstow, to the W of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, towards the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Tintagel, Minster No.1
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this fon
Noted in 'On the ancient fonts of Cornwall' (1851) as one of the oldest of Cornish fonts: "it is early,—even if it be not ante-Norman, and appears to be coeval with the ante-Norman remains in the church : it is plain, circular, and of granite ; the only attempt at carving being some cross lines at the bottom, such as masons strike across wet plaister with a trowel,—these lines are cut in the granite, and very freely." This same source gives the font at Minster, also in Cornwall, as cognate. Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865) notes: "the circular font is of Norm[an] character". Described in Cox & Green (1907) and Cox (1912) as a circular baptismal font of the Transitional Norman period [1150-1200] made of the local Tintagel green-stone. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, cup-shaped, with diagonal criss-cross on the cup (cf. Tintagel, Minster)" Described in the web page of The Hundred of Lesnewth [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cornwall] as a baptismal font made of porphyry. Noted in the GENUKI site [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Forrabury/].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.683,
-4.676
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 40′ 58.8″ N,
4° 40′ 33.6″ W
UTM: 30U 381600 5615914
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, Tintagel green-stone [one source has porphyry; another, granite]
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain, with metal decoration and handle
REFERENCES
"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; r["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
