North Hill

INFORMATION

FontID: 09409HIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Torney
Church Patron Saints: St. Torney [aka Terney, Terninus]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 14 km from Launceston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Noted in Cox (1912): "circular font of native elvan on granite base". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, circular, undecorated." Baptismal font, probably of the Norman period, made of freestone standing on a granite base [source: K. Wasley in SOSKERNOW, The Friends of Cornwall [www.homepages.tesco.net].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, freestone / Elvan stone (basin) -- granite (base)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970