Lanlivery No. 2

Results: 2 records

B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 01521LAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Brevita
Church Patron Saints: St. Bryvyth [aka Brevita]
Church Location: Lanlivery, Bodmin PL30 5BT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1208 872232
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A390, just NE of Luxulyan, 10 km S of Bodmin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Cox (1912): "exceptionally large octagonal font of granite, 37 in. in diameter". Noted in Pevsner (1970) as "an uncommonly large, octagonal font, with shields in quatrefoils; C15." The font, other than the size of its basin, is of the general design of Perpendicular English fonts, with shields inscribed in quatrefoils on the basin sides, a chammfered underbowl, and an octagonal pedestal base with some mouldings and a splayed lower base. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Lanlivery.html] [accessed 17 November 2009]. [cf. Index entry for Lanlivery No. 1 for fragments of the earlier Norman font kept in the vestry of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50,4, -4.703889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 24′ 0″ N, 4° 42′ 14″ W
UTM: 30U 378907 5584494

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*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

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