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
Font ID: 07890COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 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
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Columba
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Columba [aka Colmcille, Colomban, Columcille]
Church Address: 76 Church St, Newquay TR7 3EY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1637 877165
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A3059, 2-3 km ENE of Newquay
Additional Comments: recycled font: "very much worked over" according to Pevsner
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 354871 5587510
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.421667, -5.043056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 25′ 18″ N, 5° 2′ 35″ W
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, p. 13, 17, 83
- 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, vol. III: p. ccxxiii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 58, 167