Jacobstow No. 1 / Jacobstowe / Pennalyn

Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of remarkable fonts in this county, "all nearly alike, being square at the top, with human heads at the corners, and circles inclosing [sic] stars on the sides, supported by serpents, &c." Noted in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) as one of a group of "Fonts of very similar character are to be found in the churches of S. Nunn, Altarnun ; S. James, Jacobstowe ; S. Peter, Landrake ; S. Thomas by Launceston : and there are curious fonts of different character in the churches of SS. Mevan and Issi, Mevagissey ; S. Stephen by Launceston ; S. Andrew, Whitstone ; S. Marnarch, Lanreath, &c." Described and illustrated in Fryer (1901) as a Norman Transitional font. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman Transitional period, as described in Fryer [cf. supra]; the font has squared-top bowl with heads at the angles and large petalled medallions on the sides. Cox (1912) lists this as one of a group of Cornish fonts made from "hard Hicks Mill greystone", but later in the same source, Cox writes: "Norm[an] font c. 1 100, of Tintagel greenstone, of Altarnun type". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, the type of Altarnun and St. Thomas, Launceston, with faces at the four corners and stylized six-petalled flowers in niches on the four sides." Identified in the SOSKERNOW web site as made of Tintagel greenstone. This same source mentions a holy-water stoup in this church tought to have been made from an earlier, Saxon, baptismal font [cf. Index entry for Jacobstow No. 2].