Trevalga No. 2

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07408TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century?, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Petroc
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Petroc [aka Pedrog, Perreux, Petrock]
Church Address: Trevalga, Tintagel PL35 0DZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1840 250359
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3293, just NE of Tintagel, 30-35 km W of Launceston, on the coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Historical Region: Hundred of Stratton [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Trevalga in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX0890/trevalga/] [accessed 22 November 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. 'On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall' (1851) notes: "By far the most extraordinary font I ever saw is that in the church of S. Mary, Trevalga : it has no shaft or plinth of any kind, but consists simply of a very large octagonal vessel of stone resting on the pavement. It appears to be of Middle-Pointed date. [When we visited Trevalga church, having previously obtained the key of the porch doorway from the sexton's wife, we found that we had need of another key before we could enter the tower. Having returned to the cottage, we requested the key, and were told by the woman that it was in the " vault." She appeared very much surprised when we asked her to point us out the "vault," and equally astonished when we told her it was the font.]" Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) with two fonts: 1)a Norman font and 2)another from the Decorated period. [[cf. Index entry for Trevalga No. 1]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 378633 5615449
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.678205, -4.717825
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 40′ 41.54″ N, 4° 43′ 4.17″ W

REFERENCES

  • "On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; p. 100-101
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193