Poughill No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06088POU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only?], Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Poundstock and St. Tudy, for example
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Olaf King and Martyr
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Olaf [aka Olaf II Haraldsson, Óláfr Haraldsson, Olav, Olav Haraldsson, Olave, Olof]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Bude
Additional Comments: altered font? Supporting columns could be a later replacement
Font Notes:
Cox (1912) notes: "The plain square font, standing on circular shaft, and stoup in porch are Norm[an]". 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". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Of Purbeck table-top type, but with two tiers of blank arcades (cf. Poundstock, St Tudy). The heads of the arches are pointed." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Poughill.html] [accessed 20 November 2009]. [cf. Index entry for Poughill No. 2 for another early font in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with ring handle; modern?

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 202
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 145
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 88