Morval
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01511MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wenna
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by a pillar of the S arcade
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wenn [aka Wenn, Wenna, Wennap? Veed?, Guennap?]
Church Address: Morval, Looe PL13 1PN, United Kingdom
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A387, just N of Looe, 20-25 km W of Plymouth
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 397156 5582325
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.383981, -4.446611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 23′ 2.33″ N, 4° 26′ 47.8″ W
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, p. 18, 182
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193