St. Teath No. 1 / Saint Teath
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2002
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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Steve Beazley
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Steve Beazley
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01475TEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1380?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Teatha
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Teath [aka Etha, Teatha, Tetha]
Church Address: St Teath, Bodmin PL30 3JA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 212468
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3267, just N of the A39, 12 km NE of Wadebridge
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font made of local Tintagel green-stone of the Decorated period. Noted in Cox (1912): "plain octagonal 15th cent, font of greenstone, diameter 2 ft. 6 in." The Parish web site [www.stteath.org.uk/histchurch.htm] informs: "The present font is from this time [i.e., 1380] and has lock holes on each side of the lid". The font is octagonal from basin to lower base, decorated with a few plain mouldings. The font cover consists of a flat and plain octagonal wooden platform with the Jacobran-type arrangement of vertical scroll ribs done in metal around a turned wooden pivot; appears modern. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Teath.html] [accessed 25 November 2009]. [cf. Index entry for St. Teath No. 2 for an earlier Norman font in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 377091 5605932
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.592337, -4.736482
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 35′ 32.41″ N, 4° 44′ 11.33″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Tintagel greenstone / volvanic greenstone (local)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [given as "diameter 2 ft. 6 in." in Cox (1912), presumably meaning the widest point of the octagonal]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 13, 18, 223
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 191