St. Hilary nr. Perranuthnoe
Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image Source: Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julie Pitrone Williamson, 2002
Image Source: Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 9 December 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10399HIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hilary
Church Patron Saints: St. Hilary of Poitiers
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located E of Ludgvan, S of Perranuthnoe
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julie Pitrone Williamson [jpwilli@wmi.rr.com] for the recent [October 2002] photographs of church and modern font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Cox (1912) notes a font of the Early English period in this church: "Old octagonal I3th cent. font remains, but bad taste has provided a successor which is in use." The present baptismal font appears to be of the Victorian period, mid-19th century, probably from 1855, the date of the consecration of the re-built church; the earlier church was destroyed by a fire that occurred "on the night of Good Friday, 25th March 1853 [...] the whole building was burnt down", as the GENUKI site [www.genuki.org/uk/Cornwall/StHilary] informs. It is quite possible that the earlier font may have been replaced by the new one at the time. [NB: we have no recent information on the whereabouts of the old font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912