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
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Steve Beazley
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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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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Steve Beazley
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01475TEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Teatha
Church Patron Saints: St. Teath [aka Etha, Teatha, Tetha]
Church Location: St Teath, Bodmin PL30 3JA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 212468
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3267, just N of the A39, 12 km NE of Wadebridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1380?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley for his photograph of this font
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]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.592337, -4.736482
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 35′ 32.41″ N, 4° 44′ 11.33″ W
UTM: 30U 377091 5605932
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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907