Perranuthnoe / Perran-uthnoe / Perran Uthnoe

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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 church exterior - west tower

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font - northeast view

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view of font - northwest side

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: northeast view

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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

FontID: 10395PER

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and St. Piran

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & St. Piran [aka Perran]

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A394, 6-7 km E of Penzance

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, against the S wall, west of the entrance

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com] for the photographs of church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: probably the date of the lid itself

Inscription Location: on the side of the lid

Inscription Text: "CCA 1952"

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; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970