Poundstock / Treggorlann

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06087POU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Poughill and St. Tudy, for example
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Winwaloe [orig. St Neot's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Winwaloe [aka Guénolé de Landévennec, Grimolay, Guignolet, Gwenole, Guingalan, Guingalois, Guinglin, Guingualoeus, Guingaloué, Gwenole, Gwennole, Uuingualoeus, Walloy, Winnoc, Winwallus, Winwaloeus] -- [originally dedicated to St. Neot]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located inland from the Dizzard Point, off the A39, 10 km S of Bude
Font Notes:
Cox (1912) notes: "Square Trans[ition]-Norm[an] font has arcaded sides ; and there are remains of a possibly Norm[an] stoup." 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". The web page of The Hundred of Lesnewth [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cornwall] describes the font as "transition Norman, with arcaded sides, of a design very frequent in N.E. Cornwall". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Square with two tiers of blank niches with pointed heads, probably C13 (cf. Poughill)." The arches on this granite (?) font are very shallow and now worn. Noted and illustrated in A Sanp in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Poundstock.html] [accessed 20 November 2009]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 203
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 146
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 88