St. Gennys / S. Gwynnas / Saint Gennys
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph in http://frepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission from Steve Beazley
INFORMATION
FontID: 01492GEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gennys
Church Patron Saints: St. Genesius of Arles [aka Genès, Geniès. Gennis, Gennys]
Church Location: St Gennys, Bude EX23 0NW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 250359
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A39, 16 km SW of Bude, near Crackington Haven
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: The font at St. Mabyn, also in Cornwall, among others [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of Rootsweb.Com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
A baptismal font in this church is noted in the Post Office directory of 1856. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Cox (1912): "Squared bowl of font, with arcaded sides, is Trans[ition]-Norm[an]; it is of Tintagel greenstone". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Square, C12, of Purbeck table-top type, with six (in the W seven) blank niches with pointed heads." Only the basin appears original; the shaft, base and plinth are modern. Described in the web page of The Hundred of Lesnewth [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cornwall] as a baptismal font with a bowl that is made of "Tintagel green stone, and of the same character as that at Poundstock". Similarly described, with the base identified as a modern replacement in the St. Gennys Parish web site http://saintgennys.co.uk].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.745101,
-4.624733
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 44′ 42.37″ N,
4° 37′ 29.04″ W
UTM: 30U 385373 5622738
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, Tyntagel green stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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