Minster nr. Launceston No. 1 / Talkarn
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B01: design element - patterns - reticular
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Forrabury & Minster Parish Council, 2003
Image Source: www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01505MIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1150?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Forrabury
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Marteriana / Merteriana
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Madrun [aka Materiana, Marteriana, Merteriana, Merthiana]]
Church Address: Boscastle PL35 0BP, United Kingdom
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Davidstow and Boscastle, W of Launceston
Additional Comments: recycled font: the base appears to be of a later date
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 381600 5615914
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.683, -4.676
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 40′ 58.8″ N, 4° 40′ 33.6″ W
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; p. 97
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 181
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 120
- Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003, p. 144