Stithians No. 2 / Stythians
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09388STI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Other such in Cornwall at North Petherwyn, Pillaton and Stoke Climsland
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Stythians
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stythians [aka Stithians, Stedyana, Stedianus]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Village and parish in SW Cornwall, 8 km NW of Falmouth, off the A39 (west)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts from the 14th and 15th century, that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Cox (1912). In Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain, octagonal." [NB: the church itself dates to the 15th century; the font is probably of that same date]. Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Stithians.html] [accessed 23 November 2009]. The wooden font cover consists of a box-like octagonal base with an English inscription all around, and four vertical scroll-ribs around a centre pivot; dove finial; heavy and ugly; Victorian? [cf. Index entry for Stithians No. 1 for a fragment of a Bodmin-type font found in this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 219
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 216
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 30