Lelant
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font and cover - northeast side
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view of font and cover - southeast side
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05935LEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Uny
Church Patron Saints: St. Uny [aka Ewin, Euny, Euninus; saint of local devotion in this area of Cornwall]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located near The towans, just SE of St. Ives, in the westernmost area of Cornwall
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Denham and many others all over England
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com] for her photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes:
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Matthews (1892) notes: "In the tower is preserved the original font, but too much battered for use". Cox (1912) writes: "Octagonal arcaded bowl of a late Norm[an] font has recently been recovered from a farmyard and remounted." 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. Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Octagonal, on nine supports; the simplest of ornament, almost undatable." Illustrated in A Sanp in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Lelant.html] [accessed 18 November 2009], a source which mentions also "portions of a stoup in the porch".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring-handle
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Matthews, John Hobson, A History of the parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor, London: Elliot Stock, 1892
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928