St. Enoder / St. Enoder / St. Enodor / Saint Enoder
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BBU01: design element - patterns - reticular
Scene Description: all around
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BBU02: human figure - male - bearded
Scene Description: large head and small body
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BBU03: human figure - Negroid features
Scene Description: large head and small body
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Image Source: Lysons (1806-1833)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04817ENO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Similar font at Moreleigh, Devon
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Enoder
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Enoder [aka Enedor, Enodor, Ennodorus, Tenenan, Tinidor, Ternoc]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A30, about 18 km NNE of Truro
Additional Comments: e-mail sent to the parish priest, revd. Canon Pat Robson (female name) requesting info (may 16/01) [never responded June 2002] -- also, Dr. Symonds from Australia said in e-mail of 10 may 01 that he'd be sending us a picture [nothing received June 2002-- reminder sent 23/4/2004] -- [request for image sent to genealogy... address on 23/4/2004 as well -- permission rec'd from Ancestry.com to repro their image]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of remarkable fonts in this county. Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818) [with reference to Lyson]. Reported in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) and in Clarke (1852) as a font of the Norman period. Described in Cox (1912): "Interesting circular Norm, font, of St. Stephen stone, has 4 heads and unusual basket-work design round rim." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font ornamented with a patterned border and four human heads, one at each corner of the basin [T-G uses spelling "Enodor"]. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font, Norman, circular, with four crude corner faces and an upper border of carved criss-cross between them all around." The font consists of a roughly bucket-shaped basin the upper side of which is decoarated with a band of romboid/diamond pattern, and with four figures with large heads at 90-degree angles; the rest of the basin is without ornamentation; the cylindrical pedestal is also plain; a modern octagonal lid, flat, plain and made of wood, covers the basin. Described in SOSKERNOW as "a fine example of a Norman font and although slightly damaged when the new western tower fell in the 17th century it is still in good condition" [source: www.homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/St_Enodor.htm]. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Enoder.html] [accessed 16 November 2009].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ancestry.com for their permission to reproduce the image of this font.We are also grateful to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library for access to the copy of Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and to Jim Ingram, of the Preservation Services, Robarts Library, for the digital imaging of Lysons’ illustrations.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [St. Stephen stone]
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, goblet-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: cross-shaped, flat and plain; 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. 97
- Clarke, B., The British Gazetteer, poltical, commercial, ecclesiastical, and historical; showing [...], London: Published (for the proprietors) by H.G. Collins, 1852, vol. 2: 139 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=Cs4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA287&lpg=PA287&dq=longstow+church+font&source=web&ots=oEll8d02wb&sig=cEACZpfbEkPDiFm8yf-yzm-GZmY#PPP7,M1] [accessed 9 Nov 2007]
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; p. 217
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 98
- Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. III: p. ccxxiii and pl. on p. opp.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 171
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 72
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, p. 95 and pl. xix / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 23 September 2007]