Minster nr. Launceston No. 1 / Talkarn

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B01: design element - patterns - reticular

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01505MIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Marteriana / Merteriana
Church Patron Saints: St. Madrun [aka Materiana, Marteriana, Merteriana, Merthiana]]
Church Location: Boscastle PL35 0BP, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Davidstow and Boscastle, W of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Forrabury
Noted in 'On the ancient fonts of Cornwall' (1851) as a font identical to the one at Forrabury. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) with two fonts:1) a font of the Norman period, and 2)another font of the Early English period. Cox (1912) mentions only one: "Circular font is late Norm[an]" Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font. The bowl with diagonal crisscross lines (cf. Tintagel, Forrabury)." In Rees (2003) as a Norman tub font of ca. 1150. An entry in the RootsWeb,Com site reads: "The porphyry font is of the 13th century, if not of the 12th." Illustrated in the web site of The Forrabury & Minster Parish Council [www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk]: the basin is roughly bucket-shape and decorated with an incised reticular pattern; the stem of the base is quadrangular with rounded corners and plain; the lower base is square and also plain, the top side curved and sloping down the sides; the two pieces of the base are probably from a later date than the basin. Flat wooden cover with lock hardware; appears ancient.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.683, -4.676
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 58.8″ N, 4° 40′ 33.6″ W
UTM: 30U 381600 5615914

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, porphyry?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: Medieval?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003