Creed / St. Creed / Sen Krida
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
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Image Source: digital photograph in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Creed.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A Snap in Time, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Creed.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05934CRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]
Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Crida
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Crida [aka Creda; Cornish female saint of Irish origin, prob. 7th cent.]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A390, about 17 km E of Truro (dir. St. Austell)
Additional Comments: altered font / repaired font
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox (1912): "an excellent E[arly] E[nglish] example, early in I3th cent.; bowl 36 in. in diameter, octagonal, with 2 pointed arcades on each face ; central shaft original, but 4 smaller octagonal shafts renewed in lighter stone." Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". This font is one of them. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. C13, of Catacleuse (?) stone, octagonal, with two shallow blank niches with pointed heads to each side." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Creed.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]. The lower base is quadrangular; stands on a modern plinth.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Catacleuse stone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [given in inches in Cox (1912) as 'diameter']
LID INFORMATION
Notes: NB: there appear to be two metal staples from the old cover system
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 18
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 59
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29