St. Erme / Saint Erme

Results: 4 records

B01: symbol - tree - tree of life - 4

Scene Description: described in Cox (1912) as "conventional foliage"

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

LB02: design element - motifs - ball - 4

INFORMATION

FontID: 10643ERM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hermes
Church Patron Saints: St. Hermes
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A39, SSE of Trispen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: other such fonts at St. Enoder, Lanreath, etc, in Cornwall
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of remarkable fonts in this county. Noted in Cox (1912) as a Transitional font "with conventional foliage". Described in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, circular, with a large foliage scroll along the top of the bowl and four motifs of trees of life below." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Erme.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]. The font consists of a hemispherical basin of the type used in the typical Cornish fonts, but without the outer supporting colonnettes and head-rests; on a plain cylindrical stem and a moulded octagonal-to-square lower base decorated with a ball at each angle of the square volume. Plain round wooden cover; appears modern.

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
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970