Cury / St. Cury

Described in Blight (1862): "The font is supported by a central pillar and four slender shafts; the bowl has a circular form of ornamentation similar to that on the font at St. Levan." Listed in Cox (1912) as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design […] Circular Norm[an] font stands on central and 4 smaller shafts (renewed), with capitals up to rim ; quatrefoils on bowl cut at later date". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (19287) as a good specimen from a group of fonts "characteristic of the Norman period in architecture", "consisting of a rectangular bowl upon a large central shaft, with four slender supporting shafts at the angles". Tyrrell-Green (ibid.) identifies the material of the angle shafts on this font as "the dark green serpentine of the rocks of the Lizard district". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font with crude corner shafts and shallowly carved star or rosette medallions between. A variety of the Bodmin type." The basin of the font appears to have been re-tooled; the original granite outer colonnettes were replaced by serpentine stone in the 19th century, but the central shaft appears original. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Cury.html] [accessed 16 November 2009].