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
Font ID: 01492GEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: The font at St. Mabyn, also in Cornwall, among others [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Gennys
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Genesius of Arles [aka Genès, Geniès. Gennis, Gennys]
Church Address: St Gennys, Bude EX23 0NW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 250359
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A39, 16 km SW of Bude, near Crackington Haven
Additional Comments: recycled font: the base is a modern replacement
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of Rootsweb.Com, for the photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 385373 5622738
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.745101, -4.624733
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 44′ 42.37″ N, 4° 37′ 29.04″ W
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, p. 105
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 174