Blisland No. 2
INFORMATION
FontID: 07405BLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Protus and St. Hyacinth
Church Patron Saints: St. Protus [aka Protatius, Proteus, Prothus, Prote, and Proto] & St. Hyacinth [aka Hyacinthe, Hyacinthus]
Church Location: Blisland, Cornwall, PL30 4JE
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the A30, 8 km NE of Bodmin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Kelly's Directory of Cornwall for 1910 mentions a Perpendicular font in this church. Cox (1912) notes two fonts in this church, this one "I5th cent, of Polyphant stone". Noted in Pevsner (1970) as "octagonal, C15, with shields in quatrefoils." [cf. Index entry for Blisland No. 1 for an earlier font -Norman- also in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.526754, -4.682016
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 31′ 36.31″ N, 4° 40′ 55.26″ W
UTM: 30U 380780 5598551
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, polyphant stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1910
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970