Falmouth
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06364FAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Post-Reformation
Cognate Fonts: Fonts of this type at Exeter cathedral and Tunbridge Wells
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: In Falmouth Bay, at the southern end of the A39
Font Notes:
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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, p. 44