Braddock / Bradoc / Bradock
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B01: symbol - tree - tree of life - 4
Scene Description: on the surface of the basin, between the heads; Cox (1912) describes these as "conventional foliage" [cf. Font notes
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BBU01: human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: one at each upper angle
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01501BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Boconoc and Lostwithiel, to the SE of Bodmin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Cox (1912) writes: "Font is Trans[ition]-Norm[an]; it has a square of 22 in. at top of
bowl, with human heads at angles ; bowl carved with conventional foliage." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, with four corner faces and large trees of life in between." Noted and illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Braddock.html] [accessed 13 November 2009] as an Early English font of Pentewan stone. The basin is square at the top but becomes round and is circular at the underbowl moulding; raised on a cylindrical shaft and a quadrangular lower base, both plain. Wooden cover is flat and square.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.430044, -4.58881
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 25′ 48.16″ N, 4° 35′ 19.72″ W
UTM: 30U 387156 5587653
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Pentewan stone
Font Shape: square-to-round (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round
Trapezoidal Basin: 55 x 55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square with metal decoration and ring handle; date unknown
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