Cornelly / Gorgoes
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Image Source: digital photograph in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Cornelly.html] [accessed 13 November 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05214COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 17th century[composite font? / two fonts?], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: 17th-century copy of Norman original?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cornelius
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cornelius
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of Tregony, 3 km from Kenfig
Additional Comments: recycled font: cf. FontNotes -- NB: we have only a very low-rez image of this font and are therefore unable to analyse the ornamentation or even decide on the possibility of the font being a composite of two basins
Font Notes:
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Peter (1906) notes this baptismal as Norman. Described in Bond (1908): "At Cornelly, Cornwall, there are two fonts, one of which, being inverted, serves as a plinth to the other." Cox (1912) writes: "'The font,' says Mr. Sedding, 'appears to be a poor copy of a Norm[an] one, made probably in the seventeenth century,' but Mr. Peter considers it Norm[an]'". Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as elaborately carved with fleur-de-lys and other emblems; "either an actual Norman font, or, as Mr. Sedding, who made a special study of Norman work in Cornwall, supposed, a seventeenth century copy of the original Norman font". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Granite, octagonal, as primitively carved as if it were Norman, yet no doubt post-Reformation, and hardly intended to be revivalism -- just a rustic carver's handiwork." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of "early font bowls set within bases of successors". Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Cornelly.html] [accessed 13 November 2009]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 91
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 84
- Peter, Thurstan C., A Compendium of the history and geography of Cornwall, Truro: Netherton & Worth, 1906
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 56
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 24