St. Michael nr. St. Minver / Saint Michael / Rock Church

INFORMATION

FontID: 01495MIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: St Michael, Porthilly, Rock, Wadebridge PL27 6LW, UK -- Tel.: +44 7758 407661
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located between Wadebridge and St. Enodoc, near St. Minver, across the Camel estuary from Padstow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: a similar font at nearby St. Enodoc
Font Notes:
Murray's Handbook for travellers […] (1865) describes "a small chapel on the sandy shore of Padstow harbour, called St. Michael or the Rock Church; it is in most features like St. Enodoc Ch[urch], but without tower and spire. The font is almost exactly the same". A Norman font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 193) in "St. Michael", Cornwall. The entry for this medieval chapel in British Listed Buildings [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1006664] [accessed 10 February 2020] mentions no font in it. [***NB: THIS MEY BE THE SAME FONT AST THE ONE LISTED IN BSI UNDER ST PORTHILLY [Font ID: 10876POR]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 4° 54′ 50.4″ W, -4.914
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 29.04″ N, 4° 54′ 50.4″ W
UTM: 30U 364381 5600578

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, London: John Murray, 1865