St. Endellion No. 2 / Saint Endellion

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B01: angel - holding shield - coat of arms
coat of arms - Chenduit family
coat of arms - Pentire family
coat of arms - Roscarrock family
symbol - acorn - 3
INFORMATION
FontID: 08780END
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Endelienta
Church Patron Saints: St. Endelienta [aka Edellienta, Endelient, Endellion]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3314, 8-10 km N of Wadebridge
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted in the S wall, to the E of the entrance
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master of St. Endellion [Pevsner] / heraldic stoup
Cognate Fonts: The stoup at St. Issey may be by the same artist
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described as one of "two beautiful wrought heraldic stoups, c. 1500" [the other is at St. Issey] in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Cox (1912): "In the inner south wall of the church of Endellion, immediately to the east of the chief entrance, is a projecting stoup of dark Catacleuse stone, most beautifully carved with acorns and with three coats of arms. The arms are those of the families of Roscarrock, Chenduit, and Pentire. The Roscarrocks. of Roscarrock, in this parish, were one of the most anciently established of Cornish families. John Roscarrock, who was knight of the shire temp. Edward I., married Alice, heiress of the Chenduit family, lords of another manor in the parish. Their great-grandson, John Roscarrock, who was sheriff of the country temp. Henry VII., married Alice, daughter of John Pentire. Thus we get the approximate date of this, the most interesting of English stoups." Cox & Harvey (ibid.) proceed to mention the other beautiful Cornish stoup, at the church of St. Issey, "doubtless executed by the same sculptor" [cf. Index entry for St. Issey]. Noted in Pevsner (1970) as the work of the 'Master of St. Endellion'.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, Cornish Catacleuse stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: polygonal (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970