St. Winnow / Saint Winnow / Sanwinuec

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angel - demi-figure - arms and wings spread out

Scene Description: there appear to be four of them, at 90-degree angles on the basin side; their lower halves wrap around the underbowl -- this one has a small cross on its head

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 June 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4993846] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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design element - motifs - panel - 4

Scene Description: a rectangular panel below the extended arms of the angels

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 June 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4993846] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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inscription

Scene Description: visible here: "CHARISSIMI DE DEO" [cf. InscriptionArea]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 June 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4993837] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of basin and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4993837] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4993807] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4993809] [accessed 29 August 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2015 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font_in_St_Winnow_Church_(4823).jpg] [accessed 31 August 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible in the southwest corner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2015 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font_in_St_Winnow_Church_(4829).jpg] [accessed 31 August 2019]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2015 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font_in_St_Winnow_Church_(4825).jpg] [accessed 31 August 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01516WIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Winnow

Church Patron Saints: St. Winnoc [aka Wunnoc, Winnow]

Church Location: St Winnow, Lostwithiel PL22 0LF, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located S of Lostwithiel and the A390, on the E banks of the Fowey river

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro

Historical Region: Hundred of Fawton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner of the church

Century and Period: 15th century?, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Camborne No. 2, St. Anthony-in-Meneage No. 1, Treslothan and St. Ives, all in Cornwall

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for St Winnow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX1157/st-winnow/] accessed 31 August 2019] but it mentions no cleric or church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) notes this as one of three Cornish fonts [St. Ives and Camborne are the others mentioned in Lysons, but one more, the font at St. Anthony in Meneage has the same inscription] that “are nearly alike, and apparently of the fourteenth century, being round, with four angels supporting shields, and inscriptions in text hand [...]: the base of that of St. Winnow appears modern. The inscription [...] run thus: --‘Ecce karissimi de Deo vero baptizabuntur Spiritu Sc’o;’ with several single letters.” The entry in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) notes the inscription and the missing original base. Cox & Harvey (1907) as a granite baptismal font of the Decorated period with an inscription [cf. Inscription area]. Cox (1912) writes: "circular granite bowl has shield-bearing angels, and following inscription: 'Ecce charissimi de Deo vero baptizabuntur Spiritu Sancto', and dates the font to the late 15th century. Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font of granite with barbaric Perp[endicular] carving of angels holding hands (cf. Treslothan, St Anthony-in-Meneage, with the same inscription)."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.3822, -4.652

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 22′ 55.92″ N, 4° 39′ 7.2″ W

UTM: 30U 382550 5582431

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite [Elvan granite]

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: C&H mention that two other fonts in Cornwall bear the same inscription but do not give the names -- Lysons give them: St. Ives and Camborne

Inscription Text: "ECCE CHARISSIMI DE DEO VERO BAPTIZABUNTUR SPIRITU SANCTO"

Inscription Source: Lysons (1806-1833: vol. III: ccxxiv); Cox & Harvey (1907: 184); Cox (1912: 243)

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: low-dome octagonal with sharp arrises on the sides; fleuron finial; 17th-18thC? / Victorian?

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