St. Mabyn / Saint Mabyn

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01476MAB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mabena
Church Patron Saints: St. Mabyn [aka Mabean, Mabena, (Malbano, Mabon)]
Church Location: 3 Church Steps, St Mabyn, Bodmin PL30 3BA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1208 892811
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3266, 4-5 km E of Wadebridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font.
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period with a bowl made of local Polyphant stone; the same church has a bracket of that material. In Cox (1912): "Font, 30 in. square, has arcaded sides, and is of Trans[ition]-Norm[an] date; circular shaft has star ornament." Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font. Norman, of Purbeck table-top type, square, with eight flat blank niches with pointed heads."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.525556, -4.763889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 31′ 32″ N, 4° 45′ 50″ W
UTM: 30U 374974 5598553

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, polyphant stone (local)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970