St. Erney / Saint Erney

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01490ERN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Erney
Church Patron Saints: St. Erney
Church Location: Unnamed Road, St Erney, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1752 844456
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A38, 6-7 km WSW of Saltash, 14 km W of Plymouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Shipley (West Sussex)
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) writes: "Heavy Purbeck font, of irregular squared shape, is early Norm[an]." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the Early English period, the basin decorated with mouldings. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Erney.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]. The basin is square at the top, with three torus and two scotias on the square part, then f=plain as it becomes round to meet the plain cylindrical stem; on a square lower base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.408607, -4.29381
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 24′ 30.98″ N, 4° 17′ 37.72″ W
UTM: 30U 408066 5584863

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, thick and round; date unknown

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928