Tresillian
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B01: design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: one at each corner of the basin
INFORMATION
FontID: 06139TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [chapel-of-ease] [new] [originally from the church of St. Cohan, in Merther]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A390, about 5 km NE of Truro (dir. St. Austell)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Tresillian
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font [variant] / Bodmin type [variant]
Church Notes: The church at Merther was abandoned when a new church was built at Tresillian ca. 1878; the latter became the 'de facto' parish church por the parish.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912), in his entry for Merther St. Cohan's: "Old Norm[an] font transferred to chapel-of-ease at Tresillian." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of several early [Norman?] baptismal fonts that have square basins ornamented with angle-shafts. Pevsner (1970) reports the church of St. Cohan in Merther as disused by the time of his visit [it is still in ruins ca. 2004], and its baptismal font, "Medieval, with corner projections of the Bodmin type, but without faces", moved to Tresillian. The A Snap in Time website [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Merther.html] [accessed 19 November 2009] notes: "In 1852 a font was discovered by the Rev. Frederic Webber, late incumbent, on a spot about quarter of a mile north from the parish church and supposed to have once been the site of an ancient baptistery".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
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