St. Ive / Saint Ive

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01520IVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [base only] -- 15th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ive
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Ivo of Kermartin [aka Eozenn, Erwan, Ive, Ives, Iwan, Youenn, Yves, Yves Hélory]
Church Address: A390, St Ive, Liskeard PL14 3LX , United Kingdom
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A390, 5-6 km NE of Liskeard
Additional Comments: composite font? / painted font? Imitation marble?
Font Notes:
'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) notes a font of ca. 1520 in St. Ive, which, "by a wretched sham it has been painted to imitate marble". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Cox (1912) notes: "Font is modern, but base probably 14th cent", but, four lines below this entry, adds: "Octagonal font is Perp[endicular]. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Ive.html] [accessed 17 November 2009]. Octagonal basin with shallow side decorated with blank shields, and plain tall underbowl chamfer; on a short and plain octagonal stem, and a square lower base with chamfered angles on which are large ball (?) motifs; on a two-step plinth. The whole appears to be made of granite. [NB: not the same as St. Ives, also in Cornwall]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 401792 5592894
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.479793, -4.384192
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 28′ 47.26″ N, 4° 23′ 3.09″ 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
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, plain and flat; appears modern

REFERENCES

  • "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 102
  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 124
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193