St. Issey No. 1 / Egloskrug / Saint Issey
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Results: 6 records
B01: symbol - candelabrum
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B02: symbol - cross
BBU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2 - parallel
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Atkin, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 Kuly 2006 by Tony Atkin [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/206834] [accessed 14 June 2014]
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01493ISS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Issey
Church Patron Saints: St. Issey [aka Ida, Itha, Yse]
Church Location: St Issey, Cornwall PL27 7LU
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A389, 5 km S of Padstow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Historical Region: Hundred of Pydar
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-carved], Medieval [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.Com, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: church originally Norman; enlarged 15thC; tower collapsed twice and re-built; latest re-building 19thC
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Cox (1912): "Circular font, on round shaft and 4 small pillars, is late Norma[n] ; it bears churchwardens' initials and the date 1664, when it was restored to use after ejection by Puritans." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain, circular bowl on five supports with four motifs on flat decoration: cross, star, candelabra, etc." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Issey.html] [accessed 17 November 2009]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.50924, -4.92364
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 30′ 33.26″ N, 4° 55′ 25.1″ W
UTM: 30U 363605 5597020
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [a later re-carving with the churchwardens' initials and date 1664]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, appears modern
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