St. Dominick / St. Dominic / Saint Dominick / Saint Dominic

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10397DOM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Domica
Church Patron Saints: St. Dominic
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A388, about 15 km NW of Plymouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, near the vestry
Century and Period: 13th century [re-tooled?] / 19th century, Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com] for the recent [October 2002] photographs of church and font.
Noted in 'On the ancient fonts of Cornwall' (1851) as a font of ca. 1085. Noted in Cox (1912): "Font new, with crocketed cover." Baptismal font made of granite, perhaps the early font of the original mid-13th century church, re-tooled; or, as stated in Cox above, a replacement, of the 19th century. The font consists now of an octagonal basin of tapering sides, raised on a truncated pyramidal stem of the same shape, and on an octagonal lower base with vertical sides, the three parts plain. The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. Octagonal wooden cover, modern, of a type common in Cornwall: vertical decorated sides at the bottom, then pyramidal and topped with a dove finial; counterweight system to raise the cover.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

"On the ancient stone fonts of Cornwall: a communication", 83 (April 1851) / New Series no. 47, Ecclesiologist, 1851, pp. 96-102; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912