Sancreed No. 2

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BBL01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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BF01: angel - holding shield - blank shield - showing wings - 4

Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin

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LB01: design element - architectural - column - attached - 4

Scene Description: corresponding the the angels above

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view of church exterior

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10396SAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Creda

Church Patron Saints: St. Crida [aka Creda, Credan, Crida of Cornwall, Sancredus]

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A30, just W of Penzance, not far from Land's End

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: A similar font at St. Ives and St. Buryan

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

Described in Blight (1862) as a baptismal font "similar to that at St. Burian; it has four angels, with crosses on their foreheads, and bearing shields." Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font. Type of St Ives, with four angels holding shields, C15, granite." Noted in Cox (1912) as one of three early-14th century fonts (St. Buryan, Gulval and Sancreed) made of granite from Ludgvan parish: "The font […] has 4 angels, with crosses on their foreheads, bearing shields; it resembles that of St. Buryan's, and is of early I4th cent. date." Baptismal font consisting of a rounded basin tapering at the underbowl and adorned with four protruding angels holding shields, one at each of the four angles; the underbowl ends in a roll moulding; the base is in the shape of a broad shaft with semi-colonnettes at the four angles corresponding to the four angels above; the joint of the two blocks of stone occurs a few inches below the moulding; square lower base with wide chamfer. Square plinth with kneeling stone. Wooden font cover, round, with metal decoration and ring handle, modern. [NB: cf. Index entry for Sancreed No. 1 for the remains of a Norman font and Sancreed No. 3 for a stoup in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite [Ludgvan granite]

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 3]", 212, May 1862, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1862, pp. [527]-539; r["References"]

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

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