Minster nr. Launceston No. 2 / Talkarn

INFORMATION

FontID: 07407MIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ma[r]teriana
Church Patron Saints: St. Madrun [aka Materiana, Merteriana]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Davidstow and Boscastle, W of Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) with two fonts:1) a font of the Norman period, and 2)another font of the Early English period. This is probably the same font referred to in the web page of The Hundred of Lesnewth [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cornwall] as being made of porphyry, but Cox (1912) notes a font at Minster made of "Tintagel Greenstone".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, porphyry? / Tintagel greenstone?

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907