Forrabury / Bottreaux
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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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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Forrabury & Minster Parish Council, 2005
Image Source: www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01474FOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Tintagel, Minster No.1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Symphorian
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, towards the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Symphorian [Symphorien d'Autun] [† ca. 200]
Church Address: Forrabury Stitches, Boscastle PL35 0DJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 250359
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located not far from Davidstow, to the W of Launceston
Font Notes:
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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/].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this fon
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 381600 5615914
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.683, -4.676
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 40′ 58.8″ N, 4° 40′ 33.6″ W
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; p. 97
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 13, 103
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 191, 193
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 214 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=V_YGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22roborough+stone%22&source=bl&ots=2ZhOkO8ZIn&sig=RriwKcw-zwLPfFdGUaHE7WccPgU&hl=en&ei=QRWkSZHXMYjTnQe2ud2pBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR5,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 69