Duloe No. 1

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Permission to reproduce (standing permit)
Results: 4 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
UB01: human figure - 8?
view of church exterior
INFORMATION
FontID: 01518DUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cuby and St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Cuby [aka Cubi, Cubye, Cybi, Kebi] & St. Leonard
Church Location: The Green, Duloe, Liskeard PL14 4PW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1503 265913
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3254, 7 km S of Liskeard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of www.netfirms.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Cox (1912): "Large octagonal 15th cent, font of granite, 46 in. high
and 37 in. in diameter, is boldly carved with shields in quatrefoils." Noted also in Pevsner (1970) as an octagonal font of the Perpendicular period decorated with shields in quatrefoils in circles [cf. Index entries for Duloe No. 2 and No. 3, for a contemporary holy-water stoup, and an early font basin, respectively]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.400312, -4.487315
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 24′ 1.12″ N, 4° 29′ 14.33″ W
UTM: 30U 394298 5584198
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 92.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Notes: round and flat
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