St. Tudy / Saint Tudy
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 24 arches
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01498TUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Tudy / St. Uda
Church Patron Saints: St. Tugdual [aka Pabu, Tudal, Tudec, Tudius, Tudwal, Tudy, Tugal, Tutual, Tutuam, Uda]
Church Location: St. Tudy, Bodmin, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1208 850088
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A39, 5-6 km NE of Wadebridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Linkinhorne, Maddern, Probus and Ruan Lanihorn, all in Cornwall
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts that “are square, very little ornamented, and supported by a pedestal and four pillars”. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) with a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) notes an old font of Polyphant stone in this church, one of the few remaining items from the earlier church, a "late Norm[an] font with square bowl.". Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Norman, of Purbeck table-top type, square, the blank niches on one side in two tiers (cf. St Mabyn, Poughill, etc.)"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.55527, -4.731332
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 33′ 18.97″ N, 4° 43′ 52.79″ W
UTM: 30U 377359 5601802
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, polyphant stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal ornamentation
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970