Blisland No. 2

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07405BLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Protus and St. Hyacinth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Protus [aka Protatius, Proteus, Prothus, Prote, and Proto] & St. Hyacinth [aka Hyacinthe, Hyacinthus]
Church Address: Blisland, Cornwall, PL30 4JE
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the A30, 8 km NE of Bodmin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 30U 380780 5598551
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.526754, -4.682016
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 31′ 36.31″ N, 4° 40′ 55.26″ W

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, p. 59
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1910, [unavailable]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 39