Launcells / Landseu
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B01: design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cornish Parish Churches, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Parish Churches[http://www.caerkief.co.uk] [accessed 24 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: church interior; the font in the context of the old pews [now removed]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: old postcard [ca. 1910?] probably from Frith series [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cornish Parish Churches, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Parish Churches[http://www.caerkief.co.uk] [accessed 24 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of well - holy well
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angie Lake, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Angie Lake, 2004, in www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=9778 [accessed 24 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04791LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Swithin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Bude
Additional Comments: permission requested by email from the Cornish Parish Churches site
Font Notes:
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The Catalogue of the collections of the British Museum (1844) notes a "sketch, in pencil, of the circular font in Launcells Church; drawn by Samuel Lysons, Esq.: 4 in. x 4 in." Cox (1912) notes an "early Norm[an] (not Saxon) circular font, with double cable moulding round bowl" in this church. Tyrrell-Green (1928) gives a list of fonts in which a rope moulding constitutes "the sole adornment": Bierton (Bucks.), Egloskerry (Cornwall), Launcells Cornwall), Tremaine (Cornwall), Wick (Glam), Tresmere (Cornwall), Notgrove (Gloucs.), Folkton (NYorks.), Backwell (Somerset), Congresbury (Somerset). Described in Hutton (1957) as a baptismal font of the Norman period with double rope moulding around the basin. Ditto in Betjeman (1958) where the font cover is dated to the 17th century. The font and cover are illustrated in the context of the nave in an old [1910?] B&W postcard of the "Frith Series' (no. 56095). A recent photograph of this font in the Cornish Parish Churches [http://www.caerkief.co.uk] [accessed 24 October 2007]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: pyramidal octagonal, with incised folaige patterns on the arrises and side panels; odd cylindrical knob finial
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 121
- British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-, [http://books.google.com/books?id=GI8Q20pm5osC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=launcells+church+font&source=web&ots=sA6Ww7sykI&sig=iLmvrSoptOiNCr3ePYAAXHxr4r8#PPP9,M1] [accessed 24 Oct 2007]
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part V", 50, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1918, pp. 583-587; p. 585
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 147
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 58
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79