Boyton / Boyton nr. Launceston
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CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2003
Image Source: Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission to reproduce (standing permit)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01483BOY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Other early oval fonts at Morwenstow and Washaway
Church / Chapel Name: Church of the Holy Name
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Name [dedication started in the 14th cent.]
Church Address: Under Ln, Launceston PL15 9RR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1566 777607
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3254, 8-10 km N of Launceston
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) writes: "Rude font, of Tintagel greenstone, and irregular oval shape, has been supposed to be Saxon ; but it has cable moulding and is much more probably early Norm[an]". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain Early Norman, of the same irregular oval shape as Morwenstow and Washaway." According to the GENUKI site [www.genuki.org.uk], "the font, claimed by some to be Saxon, is a simple, crude bowl standing on a pillar"; this same source informs that the dedication to the Holy Name dates only from the new church built towards the end of the reign of Henry IV in 14th century, not from the earlier Norman church that existed in that place, the dedication of which is unknown.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 402517 5617771
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.703576, -4.380502
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 42′ 12.88″ N, 4° 22′ 49.81″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, tintagel green-stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: oval, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 66
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 45