St. Newlyn East / Newlyn / Newlyn East
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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster
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BH01: human figure - head - 4
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10649NEW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Newlyn the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Newlyn [aka Newelina, Newlina]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A3075, 8 km S of Newquay
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font
Cognate Fonts: Bodmin, St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulyan, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan and St. Wen
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of Cornish fonts that includes Bodmin, “St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulion, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell, Veryan, and St. Wen”. Described in Cox (1912): "Late Norm[an] font good example of Bodmin type ; bowl carved with tendril work; angle shafts new." Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Norman, of the rich Bodmin type, with angel faces at the corners, amd intertwined floriated scrolls above stylized lilies on the four sides." Listed in Cox (1912) as one of a group "of characteristically Cornish design".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
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