Michaelstow
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01522MIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Michaelstow, Bodmin PL30 3PD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1208 850088
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A39, 11 km NE of Wadebridge, at the western end of the Bodmin Moor
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Cox (1912) has it as Early English in the introduction to his work in Cornwall, but as "Octagonal chalice-shaped font is 15th cent." in the Michaelstow entry. Pevsner (1970) simply notes: "Font. Plain, octagonal (what date?)." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides and chamfered underbowl, raised on a three-part base: the upper half of the pedestal is octagonal, like the basin; the lower half appears cylindrical, and the lower base proper is square, cushion-capital, with two humps on each side. The whole is raised on a square plinth. Octagonal wooden cover with metal decoration and handle; probably modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.Com [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com], for the image of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 378780 5604322
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.578221, -4.712107
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 34′ 41.6″ N, 4° 42′ 43.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 18, 180
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 119