St. Enodoc, nr. Bray Hill / Saint Enodoc / St. Enodock / Sinkineddy / Trebetherick

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01489ENO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: a similar font at the nearby chapel of St. Michael
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gwinedoc [aka Enodoc]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Address: St Enodoc, rebetherick Truro, PL27 6SA, United Kingdom
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near St. Minver, NW of Wadebridge
Additional Comments: recycled mortars: MUST USE: Cox & Harvey (1907: 239) identified "a row of medieval mortars, of various sizes and dates, mounted on pedestals , flanking the path to the porch [...] placed here under the idea that they were all holy-water stoups".
Font Notes:
Noted in 'On the ancient fonts of Cornwall' (1851): "the bowl is plain and circular, and the stem is encircled with the cable moulding boldly sculptured". Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865) mentions an ancient chapel near Bray Hill, half-buried in the sand. Murray dates the church to ca. 1430, but notes: "Its Norman font, a plain circular bowl with cable moulding at the base is an indication of the existence of a ch[urch] prior to the present structure. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Romanesque font. Cox (1912) reports a font of local sandstone in this church: "Small round font, with cable moulding between bowl and base". Bond (1908), after Cox & Harvey (1907), mentions a row of medieval stone mortars in the churchyard of the once sand-buried church of St. Enodock, Cornwall, "placed here under the idea that they were holy water stoups". Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Enodoc.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and locking mechanism; appears old.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 363897 5602449
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.5581, -4.9215
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 33′ 29.16″ N, 4° 55′ 17.4″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 97
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 73 (regarding mortars/stoups)
  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 99
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193, 239
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865, p. 225