Ladock

No entry found for Ladock in the Domesday survey. Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of remarkable fonts in this county. Cox (1912) lists this as a 13th-century font made of "dark Catacleuse stone, sometimes mistaken for Purbeck". Later in the same source, Cox writes: "The circular late Norm[an] font resembles that of Fowey ; it is of Catacleuse stone." Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font made of the Cornish local green catacleuse stone. Baptismal font said to be from the 12th or 13th century, a "beatifully proportioned and decorated example, made of dark grey Catacleuse stone with both star and cable mouldings" and, according to S.V. Daniell, "probably from the same hand" as those at Feock and Fowey. The font is indeed handsome and of very regular proportions; the basin is bucket shaped and has star moulding ornamentation at the upper rim; large palmettes inside circles ornament the chamfered sides, probably eight of them; the plain cylindrical stem of the base connects with the bottom of the basin with a rope moulting, and the lower base is square, in the shape of a cushion capital. [NB: information on, and images of this font kindly supplied by Dr. John L. Symonds of Cronulla, NSW, Australia - Dr. Symonds, whose ancestors are registered as baptised in this very font, cited S.V. Daniell's The Story of Cornwall's Churches (Truro: Tor Mark Press, [s.d.]) as source.]. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Exactly as at Feock, Catacleuse stone, sharply carved, Late Norman, circular, with an upper border of two tiers of crosses and trees of life in circles below."