Morval

INFORMATION

FontID: 01511MOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wenna
Church Patron Saints: St. Wenn [aka Wenn, Wenna, Wennap? Veed?, Guennap?]
Church Location: Morval, Looe PL13 1PN, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A387, just N of Looe, 20-25 km W of Plymouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by a pillar of the S arcade
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Cox (1912) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Cox (1912) has it double-listed as Early English and Decorated. The font is illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Images/Morval-02.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2009]. The granite font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides and a chamfered underbowl, raised on an octagonal stem and splaying lower base; narrow octagonal plinth; all of the above totally plain. The font cover is octagonal, flat and box-like, with carved sides; appears modern, probably Victorian.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.383981, -4.446611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 23′ 2.33″ N, 4° 26′ 47.8″ W
UTM: 30U 397156 5582325

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

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

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907