Poundstock / Treggorlann

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - double arcade (up and down) - pointed arches

INFORMATION

FontID: 06087POU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Winwaloe [orig. St Neot's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Winwaloe [aka Wynwallow, Winnol, Onolaus, Guénolé] -- [originally dedicated to St. Neot]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located inland from the Dizzard Point, off the A39, 10 km S of Bude
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Poughill and St. Tudy, for example
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
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