Crowan / St. Crowan / Saint Crowan

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - passant - 4
INFORMATION
FontID: 06407CRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Crewenna
Church Patron Saints: St. Crowan [aka Carwenna, Crewyn, Crewennus, Crewena, Crewenna]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just off (E) the B3303, 8-10 km NNW of Helston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [modern shaft] / 15th - 16th century, Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851): "The font at S. Crewene, Crowan […] has recently been rescued from a farm-yard near the church, and has been well cleaned and restored." Noted in Blight (1863): "a square Norman font with dragons at the base; being found in a mutilated condition it was repaired, and the shaft is modern." Noted in Cox (1912): "Square Norma[n] font has dragons at base of circular shaft." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an old baptismal font ornamented with "lions of conventional and somewhat rude form [...] indicated upon the font pedestals in low relief". Pevsner (1970) doubts the early date attributed to this font: "Font. Granite; plain, square bowl, quatrefoil section of shaft, base with extremely primitively carved lions passant; probably late medieval, not Norman (cf. St Ives)." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Crowan.html] [accessed 16 November 2009].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; r["References"]
Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 10]", [215], August 1863, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1863, pp. 130-142; r["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