St. Columb Minor

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B01: symbol - shield - blank

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B02: design element - motifs - foliage

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BBU01: design element - motifs - zigzag

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BH01: human figure - head - 4

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07890COL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Columba
Church Patron Saints: St. Columba [aka Colmcille, Colomban, Columcille]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Newquay
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font, Bodmin group
Cognate Fonts: Bodmin, St. Austell, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulyan, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan, and St. Wen
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photographs of this font.
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts that includes Bodmin, “St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulion, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan, and St. Wen”. Cox (1912) notes a font of Pentewan stone in this church "of characteristically Cornish design […] Squared late Norm[an] font has central and 4 angle shafts with heads for capitals.". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font, Norman, of Bodmin type, very much worked over." [NB: the conflict in defining these fonts as 'square' or 'hemispheric/round' stems from the shape that the supporting columns project]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Pentewan stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970