Whitstone / Mengwynn
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Results: 2 records
B01: design element - motifs - scroll work
Scene Description: on an otherwise plain round basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Digital image from Steve Beazley and RootsWeb.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Digital image from Steve Beazley and RootsWeb.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01499WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Anne
Church Patron Saints: St. Anne
Church Location: Oak Ln, Whitstone, Holsworthy EX22 6TH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1288 341600
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3254, 15 NNW of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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 remarkable fonts in this county. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) notes: "Late Norm[an] circular font has good band of foliage round bowl." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the early period with scroll-work motif, "the only adornment of a plain round bowl" [NB: T-G gives the county as Devon - it is in Cornwall]. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, circular, with a simple undulating leaf friezealong the top of the bowl." The wooden font cover is octagonal, with a ball finial; appears modern, perhaps 19th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.760928, -4.464242
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 39.34″ N, 4° 27′ 51.27″ W
UTM: 30U 396730 5624262
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: tall-ish prismatic cover, octagonal
REFERENCES
"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 99
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928