St. Keyne / Saint Keyne / Sen Keyn / St. Kayna

INFORMATION

FontID: 01510KEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Keyna
Church Patron Saints: St. Keyne [aka Cain, Cainwen, Keyna]
Church Location: B3254, St Keyne, Liskeard PL14 4RJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1579 347411
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3254, 5 km SSW of Liskeard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church Notes: Pevsner (1970) points out that the nearby holy well is one of the most famous in England, "though of no architectural interest."
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Cox (1912), however, reports the font as Perpendicular, a plain octagonal granite font. Pevsner (1970), however, has as "Perp[endicular], octagonal, plain." The Historic Churches Preservation Trust [source: 'Recent grants', Grants Cttee meeting of 13 September 2005] describes the font in St. Keyne's as being of the 15th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.42074, -4.4757
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 25′ 14.66″ N, 4° 28′ 32.52″ W
UTM: 30U 395169 5586453

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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