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

INFORMATION

FontID: 01488END
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Endelienta
Church Patron Saints: St. Endelienta [aka Edellienta, Endelient, Endellion, Endelyn]
Church Location: St Endellion, Port Isaac PL29 3TP, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3314, 8-10 km N of Wadebridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.57268, -4.83152
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 34′ 21.65″ N, 4° 49′ 53.47″ W
UTM: 30U 370310 5603908

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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970