St. Ewe / Saint Ewe

Listed in Cox (1912) as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design […] Squared font, on central shaft and with 4 angle shafts, having heads for capitals, also Norm[an]" Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, on five supports, with a plain bowl with four badly carved corner faces." Baptismal font of the Cornish type but now greatly altered and wrongly restored. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin that appears totally plain supported on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes; the latter end on the top with human heads; the five shafts have moulded bases. It is difficult to tell what parts of the font are original and which ones are not, so drastic the re-tooling is. The oak cover is modern.