Lezant
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Scene Description: Notice the trimmed angles of the original font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2005
Image Source: Digital image in Steve Beazley, RootsWeb.Com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10550LEZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Altarnun font / Cornish font
Cognate Fonts: Altarnun, Lawhitton, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael / St. Breoc
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael [originally dedicated to St. Briocus [aka Breoc, Breock] on 25 September 1259]
Church Notes: The Genuki site [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Lezant] informs that, though the church is now dedicated to St Michael, it "was originally dedicated to St Briocus on 25th September 1259".
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of Lawhitton and W of the Dunerton and the border with Devon
Font Notes:
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Cox (1912) writes: "Note the square Norm[an] font., 30 in. in diameter, with the angles cut off to form an octagon." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, of Altarnun type, but with the corner faces carved off so that the shape is now octagonal." The font must have been originally like its cognates of the Altarnun type, square and decorated with heads at the corners of the basin, but these were trimmed off to make the font octagonal; the short stem is polygonal and the lower base rounded; a wooden lid, flat and with decorative and locking hardware, is now on the font. The font at Lawhitton [cf. Index entry] is quite similar and has retained the original corners.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.Com, for the images of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite?
Font Shape: square-to-octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 154
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 102