St. Wenn / Saint Wenn / St. Wen

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B01: coat of arms - 4

Scene Description: one on each side and underbowl

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BBU01: design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: a triple band on the upper basin sides, between the heads

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BH01: human figure - head - 4

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the central shaft and the corner colonnettes

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LB02: design element - motifs - spur

Scene Description: on the lower bases of the outer colonnettes

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10436WEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wenn

Church Patron Saints: St. Wenn [aka Wenn, Wenna, Wennap? Veed?, Guennap?]

Country Name: England

Location: Cornwall, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the B3274, 5-6 km NW of Roche

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century [altered?] / 14th century, Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered?] / Decorated?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font / Bodmin type / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Many fonts in Cornwall in this style: Roche, Bodmin, etc.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of www.cornwall.nefirms.com/stwenn/page/Font... for the photographs of this font.

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Listed in Cox (1912) as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design […] Late Norm[an] font has bowl ornamented around rim with treble chevron mouldings, and supported at angles by shafts with human heads as capitals." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, exactly as at Mawgan-in-Pydar and St Columb Minor (Bodmin type)." Baptismal font of the Cornish type, but probably of a later date than the originals at Bormin, etc., on account of the heraldic motifs [unless the heraldic motifs are a later re-carving]: roughly hemispherical basin supported on a central shaft and on four outer colonnettes the capitals of which are the protruding heads of the upper basin side. The upper sides of the basin are covered in a zigzag pattern; one of the sides appear to have a shield/heraldic motif; the columns have capitals and bases, the latter moulded, on square lower bases with spurs at 90-degree angles.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; r["References"]

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

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