Lawhitton No. 1 / Lanwithon / Languiton
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 4
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BH01: human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: unbearded
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01479LAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font
Cognate Fonts: Altarnun, Alterton, Callington, Lezant, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Lawhitton, Launceston PL15 9NQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1566 773160
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B3362, 6 km ESE of Launceston, just S of St Stephens-by-Launceston
Font Notes:
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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", though a later entry in the same source identifyes the stone as 'Polyphant': "Porch has inner doorway and stoup of Polyphant stone. Square Norm[an] font with heads at angles is of same material." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, of Altarnun type, but with unbearded corner faces." The font at Lezant [cf. Index entry] is similar but has had the corner heads trimmed off.
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COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 406228 5608148
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.617667, -4.325528
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 37′ 3.6″ N, 4° 19′ 31.9″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Hicks Mill greystone? / Polyphant?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration
REFERENCES
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part VI", 51, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1919, pp. 211-221; p. 214
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 12, 13
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 192
- Fryer, Alfred C., "A Group of Transitional-Norman Fonts", VII, British Archaeological Association Journal. New Series, [?], pp. 215ff; p. [?]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 99