Trevalga No. 1

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph in the Cornish Church Index [http://cornishchurches.com/Trevalga Church Cornwall - St. Petroc/index.htm] [accessed 22 November 2020]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph in the Cornish Church Index [http://cornishchurches.com/Trevalga Church Cornwall - St. Petroc/index.htm] [accessed 22 November 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Trevalga: St Petroc's church. The tower is 13th century; there is a Norman font and a north chapel, said to be Norman in origin. Trevalga is a hamlet but also a parish. It is not even signposted off the main Tintagel-Boscastle road"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2011 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2452450] [accessed 22 November 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the basin of the font is partially visible in the bottom-left corner, the north side of the nave, opposite the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph in the Cornish Church Index [http://cornishchurches.com/Trevalga Church Cornwall - St. Petroc/index.htm] [accessed 22 November 2020]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in the Cornish Church Index [http://cornishchurches.com/Trevalga Church Cornwall - St. Petroc/index.htm] [accessed 22 November 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01497TRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Petroc

Church Patron Saints: St. Petroc [aka Pedrog, Perreux, Petrock]

Church Location: Trevalga, Tintagel PL35 0DZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 250359

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the B3293, just NE of Tintagel, 30-35 km W of Launceston, on the coast

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Historical Region: Hundred of Stratton [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, N side, opposite the S entranceway

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century?, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Trevalga in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX0890/trevalga/] [accessed 22 November 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) kist two fonts here: 1)a Norman font and 2)another from the Decorated period [NB: this could be an error, as we have had no corroboration of there being two fonts here from any other source]. Cox (1912) notes: "Large circular font, of Tintagel greenstone, is Norm[an]." Pevsner (1970) notes simply: "Font. Plain, circular." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX0811390030] notes: "Parish church. Dedicated to St Petroc. Probably Norman origins, partly rebuilt in C13 and C15 and restored in 1875 by J.P. St Aubyn. [...] The church possibly has Norman origins with a Norman font and some early masonry surviving in the north wall of the nave. [...] Norman font of greenstone with square base and round shaft." Illustrated in the Cornish Church Index [http://cornishchurches.com/Trevalga Church Cornwall - St. Petroc/index.htm] [accessed 22 November 2020]. Described in the web page of The Hundred of Lesnewth [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cornwall] as a circular baptismal font of the Norman period made of greenstone. The Cornwall diocese page [www.caerkief.co.uk] cites Kelly's Directory of 1883 that dates the font to the Norman period as well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.678205, -4.717825

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 41.54″ N, 4° 43′ 4.17″ W

UTM: 30U 378633 5615449

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, greenstone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970