Phillack
Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
Results: 4 records
B01:
symbol - cross
Scene Description: modern re-carving
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image Source: Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
view of church exterior - south view
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Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image Source: Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image Source: Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 06086PHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Felicitas
Church Patron Saints: St. Felicity
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the western tip of Cornwall, a few km E of St. Ives, near the A30
Font Location in Church: Inside the church? [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only?] [re-tooled?] / 19th century, Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: Many others of this type in England
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julie Pitrone Williamson for her photographs of this church and font
Cox (1912) notes that the "font is Trans[itional]-Norm[an], but much retooled." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) 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"; ornamented with crosses. The present font at this church appears to be a Victorian one, with a quadrangular basin of tapering sides decorated with crosses, raised on a central shaft and four angle colonnettes, all in marble, following the 19th-century taste. If Cox and Tyrrell-Green were depicting this font, and the basin is indeed a re-tooling of the old one, any trace of the old appearance is well hidden indeed. If this is not the same basin, it may date from the 1856-1857 rebuilding of this church.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood and metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square wooden platform with raised metal ribs and cross finial; modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
