Blisland No. 1

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B01: design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

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BBL01: design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

Scene Description: a band of, around the lower end of the basin

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01482BLI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Protus and St. Hyacinth

Church Patron Saints: St. Protus [aka Protatius, Proteus, Prothus, Prote, and Proto] & St. Hyacinth [aka Hyacinthe, Hyacinthus]

Church Location: Blisland, Cornwall, PL30 4JE

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the A30, 8 km NE of Bodmin

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just W of the S door, against the S wall

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

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Noted as a Norman font in Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 193) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Kelly's Directory of Cornwall for 1910 mentions "the original Norman font, a rude circular bowl, with incised ornament on the exterior". Cox (1912) notes a good Norm[an] bowl of St. Stephen stone, rescued from churchyard and placed on granite shaft". Noted in Pevsner (1970) as "Norman, circular, with four times a motif of concentric Vs, and a herringbone moulding along the top." [cf. Index entry for Blisland No. 2 for a later font in the same church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.526754, -4.682016

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 31′ 36.31″ N, 4° 40′ 55.26″ W

UTM: 30U 380780 5598551

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, St. Stephen stone [granite stem]

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1910

Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970