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
Image Source: Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (standing permit)

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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

Font ID: 07889ADV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Athewyn / Athwenna
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Advent [aka Adwen, Adwena, Athewenna, Alhawyn, Athewyn, Athwenna]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km N of Bodmin
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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this font.

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, p. 52
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 35