Ruan Lanihorne / St. Ruan Lanyhorne
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: two per side of the square basin
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2003
Image Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/[...]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 20 January 2005]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05928RUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [re-tooled?], Norman [altered?]
Cognate Fonts: Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Linkinhorne, Maddern, Probus and St. Tudy, all in Cornwall
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Rumon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Rumon [aka Rumonus, monk, bishop of the 6th cent.]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 kms west of the A3078, about 12 km ESE of Truro
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts that “are square, very little ornamented, and supported by a pedestal and four pillars”. Cox (1912) notes a font of Pentewan stone of the Norman period; Cox (ibid.) reports that in 1866 "old roofs were destroyed at restoration, but a few timbers were unnaturally worked up into a font cover." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font with a square basin, a late example of Norman design. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Square, with quatrefoil and ogee arch decoration; C14. The cover is made up of wall plates from the old roof." [NB: if original, the font appears to have been re-cut or drastically re-tooled].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.Com [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/[...]], for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Pentewan stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: [cf. FontNotes]
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 208
- 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. ccxxiv
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 154
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 28