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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view of font
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01482BLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Protus and St. Hyacinth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just W of the S door, against the S wall
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Protus [aka Protatius, Proteus, Prothus, Prote, and Proto] & St. Hyacinth [aka Hyacinthe, Hyacinthus]
Church Address: Blisland, Cornwall, PL30 4JE
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the A30, 8 km NE of Bodmin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 380780 5598551
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.526754, -4.682016
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 31′ 36.31″ N, 4° 40′ 55.26″ W
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, p. 59
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1910, [unavailable]
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 210 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=V_YGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22roborough+stone%22&source=bl&ots=2ZhOkO8ZIn&sig=RriwKcw-zwLPfFdGUaHE7WccPgU&hl=en&ei=QRWkSZHXMYjTnQe2ud2pBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR5,M1] [accessed 24 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 38-39