Falmouth

INFORMATION

FontID: 06364FAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: In Falmouth Bay, at the southern end of the A39
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Post-Reformation
Cognate Fonts: Fonts of this type at Exeter cathedral and Tunbridge Wells
Tyrrell-Green (1928: 44) described this font as one of "several large fonts of good design" [other such fonts at Exeter cathedral and Tunbridge Wells] that were caused to be made by the "Laudian revival of churchmanship".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928