Cury / St. Cury
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06084CUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1150?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin and central shaft only], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Grade and Gunwalloe, for example, all in Cornwall
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Corentine [aka St. Corantyn]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Corentin [aka Corentine, Corantyn]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the Lizard district, on the SE shore of Mount's Bay, accessible via the A3083 S of Helston
Additional Comments: altered: modern replacement colonnettes
Font Notes:
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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].
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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite [with Cornish Serpentine replacement shafts]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, moulded to the upper shape of the basin
REFERENCES
- Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 4]", 213, July 1862, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1862, pp. 21-31; p. 24
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 17, 90
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 61, 76
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 135