Cornelly / Gorgoes

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]