St. Endellion No. 1 / Saint Endellion / Sen Endelyn

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01488END

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Endelienta

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Endelienta [aka Edellienta, Endelient, Endellion, Endelyn]

Church Address: St Endellion, Port Isaac PL29 3TP, United Kingdom

Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B3314, 8-10 km N of Wadebridge

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner (1970) as "Norman, very plain". Cox (1912) reports a plain Norman font made of local sandstone in this church. [cf. Index entry for St. Endellion No. 2 for a heraldic stoup of ca. 1500]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 370310 5603908

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.57268, -4.83152

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 34′ 21.65″ N, 4° 49′ 53.47″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 13, 97
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 169