Perranuthnoe / Perran-uthnoe / Perran Uthnoe
Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: very irregular, on at least two of the sides
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view of font - northwest side
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view of font - northeast view
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: northeast view
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: northwest view
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10395PER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and St. Piran
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, against the S wall, west of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & St. Piran [aka Perran]
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A394, 6-7 km E of Penzance
Font Notes:
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Blight (1863) writes: "The font, of granite, is square, with one side panelled, and may be of early date." Cox (1912) notes it as a Norman font made of granite. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. C13, granite, with trefoil-headed blank niches." The square basin is rather atypical of Cornish fonts of the period: square with perfectly vertical sides; the east and north panels are decorated with an odd blind arcade with irregular trefoiled arches; the west is plain; the south is against the wall and hidden from sight now; the basin is raised on a quadrangular pedestal base with vertical round mouldings at the angles, like semi-colonnettes; square lower base; quadrangular plinth. Pyramidal wooden cover, the lower end with vertical sides decorated with shields, foliage, etc.; one of the upper sides carries the inscription "CCA 1952". The west side of the basin shows damage on the upper rim consistent with the forcefull removal of the metal staples of the old cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com] for the photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on the side of the lid
Inscription Text: "CCA 1952"
Inscription Notes: probably the date of the lid itself
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 8]", [214], May 1863, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1863, pp. 572-582; p. 581
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 12
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 140