Liskeard No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 08820LIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A38, about 25 km ENE of Plymouth
Font Location in Church: In the N porch, used as stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Cox & Harvey (1907) describe the holy-water stoup in this church as "originally a plain Norman font". Cox (1912) reports two fonts in this church, of which, one is the "Bowl of old Norm[an] font built up in N. porch, where it long served as holy-water stoup." [cf. Index entry for Liskeard No. 2 for the font of the Decorated period]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907