Camborne No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 01485CAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin and St. Meriadoc
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours & St. Meriasek [aka Meriadoc, Meriadocus]
Church Location: Church St, Camborne TR14 7DF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1209 610498
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A3047, just S of the A30, 5 km W of Redruth (dir. Penzance)
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, a noteworthy example [NB: the same listing includes a font of the Decorated period for this locality, later moved [cf. Index entry for Camborne No. 2]. Cox (1912), however, mentions only a modern granite font in this church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.213444, -5.301944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 12′ 48.4″ N, 5° 18′ 7″ W
UTM: 30U 335766 5564899

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907