Egloshayle

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01487EGL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: The font at Linkinhorne, also in Cornwall
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helie / St. Petroc
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Petroc [St. Helier?]
Church Address: Tower Hill, Wadebridge PL27 6HS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7312 117940
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A389, just S of Wadebridge, 11-12 km NW of Bodmin
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Transitional period baptismal font. Described in Cox (1912): "Square Norm[an] font with arcaded sides, supported by cylindrical base and 4 small shafts at angles." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a good specimen from a group of fonts "charateristic of the Norman period in architecture", "consisting of a rectangular bowl upon a large central shaft, with four slender supporting shafts at the angles"; it has blind arcade ornamentation on the sides. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, Purbeck table-top type, with plain blank arcading on the sides." Described and illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Egloshayle.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]: "the font, of Norman date, […] bears an inscription now illegible". [NB: a holy-water stoup is reported in the south porch, but we have no date for it; could be Early English or late-medieval]]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 374388 5595390
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.497, -4.7711
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 29′ 49.2″ N, 4° 46′ 15.96″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 95
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 65
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 75