Ludgvan / St. Ludgvan / Saint Lugvan
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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: the whole basin has the shape of a scalloped capital
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
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view of basin
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church interior - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05465LUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 13th century [re-carved?] [basin only], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Ludgvan and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Ludwan [a.k.a. Ludan, Ludgvan, Ludjan, Ludowanus] & St. Paul
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3-5 km ENE of Penzance, west of the A30
Font Notes:
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Described in Blight (1863): "The bowl of the font appears to be the sole relic of earlier work; it has a cable moulding, scolloped [sic] sides, and a rude toth-ornament above. Its date is probably transition from Norman to Early English". Described in Bond (1908) as being a baptismal font of the Norman period/style with a basin in the shape of a scalloped capital. Cox (1912) notes: "Font, Norm[an] with cable moulding". [NB: The baptismal font in use at present appears to be a creative experiment in neo-Norman collage incorporating a pot-pourri of Norman motifs]. Pevsner (1970) simply notes: "Font. Norman, of an unusual design with scalloped sides, a chip-carved moulding along the top, a cable-moulding below."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com] for the photographs of this church.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square-to-octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain, with metal handle (trimmed in the shape of the basin top)
REFERENCES
- Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 9]", [214], June 1863, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1863, pp. 690-701; p. 692 and fn
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 151
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 163
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 109