Linkinhorne / Lanngynhorn / Linkinhorn / Linkenhorne

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind

Scene Description: appears to have mixed arches, some pointed

LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind

Scene Description: appears to have mixed arches, some pointed

INFORMATION

FontID: 01503LIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mellor
Church Patron Saints: St. Mellor [aka Melor, Melorus, Mylor]
Church Location: Linkinhorne, Callington PL17 7LY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1579 382484
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just W of the B3257, 11 km S of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1230?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Early English?
Cognate Fonts: Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Maddern, Probus, Ruan Lanihorn and St. Tudy; also Egloshayle, all in Cornwall
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”. 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) suggests a date ca. 1230, in the Early English period [aka First Pointed] for this font. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Cox (1912): "Trans[istion]-Norm[an] font, 31 in. square, with arcaded sides, supported on 5 shafts". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a good specimen from a group of fonts "charateristic of the Norman period in architecture", "consisting of a rectangular bowl upon a large central shaft, with four slender supporting shafts at the angles" Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font of polyphant stone. C13, cf. Egloshayle, that is, a square top with narrow pointed blank arcades." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Linkinhorne.html] [accessed 18 November 2009]. The lower base is almost identical to the basin in both shape and decoration; on a modern octagonal plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.538, -4.373
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 16.8″ N, 4° 22′ 22.8″ W
UTM: 30U 402705 5599351

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, polyphant stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Trapezoidal Basin: 77.5 x 77.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

REFERENCES

"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; r["References"]
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