Veryan
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B01: design element - motifs
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B02: symbol - cross - Latin - 2
Scene Description: on one of the sides of the base
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BH01: human figure - head - 4
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BU01: design element - motifs - wave
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view of font and cover
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © www.caerkief.co.uk, 2005
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10651VER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Symphorian
Church Patron Saints: St. Symphorian [Symphorien d'Autun] [† ca. 200]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A3078, 6 km SW of Tregoney, about 15 km SE of Truro, in the Roseland peninsula
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [medieval copy?], Medieval? / Modern?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font, Bodmin group
Cognate Fonts: Bodmin, St. Austell, St. Columb-Minor, Crantock, Cuby, St. Dennis, St. Gorran, Luxulyan, Newlyn, Roche, Southill, Tintagell and St. Wen
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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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”. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "an ancient font enriched with sculpture". Cox (1912) reports this font as "a poor example of late Norm[an], of St. Austell type". Described in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Square, with corner faces and odd ornament between (the local reactionary continuation of Norman conventions, or a self-conscious late medieval copy?)". The Parish web site [www.veryan.org.uk] informs that "the font is a mediaeval copy of Norman design". [We are grateful to Steve Beazley, of RootsWeb.com, for the photograph of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, with metal ornamentation
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
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