Advent / St. Anne / St. Tane / St. Athewyn
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: appears to be the only decoration on the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (standing permit)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07889ADV
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Athewyn / Athwenna
Church Patron Saints: St. Advent [aka Adwen, Adwena, Athewenna, Alhawyn, Athewyn, Athwenna]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km N of Bodmin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Cox (1912): "Palin Norm[an] circular font". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain, circular, Norman." The 'Recent Grants' report of the Grants Committee of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust [28 September 2004] records a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. [source: www.historicchurches.org.uk/recent_grants]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; plain
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970