Feock / St. Feock / Saint Feock
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Results: 5 records
B01:
symbol - cross - saltire (or X-in-a-square)
Scene Description: a band of, in two tiers
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B02:
design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: a single row, all around
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BU01:
symbol - tree - Tree of life - in a circle
Scene Description: several. all around the underbowl
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CR01:
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: appears to be part of the upper half of the original stem
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LB01:
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: around the upper half of the stem
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01491FEO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Feock
Church Patron Saints: St. Feoca [aka Fioc, Feock]
Church Location: Feock, Truro TR3 6SA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7432 142381
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the W shore of the Fal river, off the Truro to Falmouth road - also accessible via the King Harry car ferry
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Similar to fonts at Ladock and Fowey
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this font]
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of remarkable fonts in this county. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) describes it as a "Circular late Norm[an] font of Catacleuse stone elaborately carved after an unusual design" probably of the 13th-century. Cox (ibid.) adds that "dark Catacleuse stone [is] sometimes mistaken for Purbeck". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Late Norman, of Catacleuse stone, crsply carved, circular, with a frieze of two tiers of diagonal crosses above and circles with trees of life below (cf. Ladock, Fowey, etc.)" [cf. Index entries]. [NB: Dr. John L. Symonds, of Cronulla, NSW, Australia, sent BAPTISTERIA SACRA a citation from S.V. Daniell's The Story of Cornwall's Churches (Truro: Tor Mark Press, [s.d.]), in which Daniell describes the fonts at Feock, Fowey and Ladock as being similar and "probably from the same hand".]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.2058,
-5.04965
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 12′ 20.88″ N,
5° 2′ 58.74″ W
UTM: 30U 353741 5563523
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, [Catacleuse stone]
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
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
