Grade / St. Grade
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: one seen here on the right side of the west basin panel
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 November 2008 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StGradaChurchGrade2.JPG] [accessed 23 June 2019]
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design element - motifs - foliage - quatrefoiled
Scene Description: a large one here, in the centre of west basin side
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design element - motifs - foliage - quatrefoiled
Scene Description: a band of, all around
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Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Ian, of Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Grade Church Cornwall - St. Grada/index.htm] [accessed 23 June 2019]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: on the bulges that form the capitals of the colonnettes
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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Ian, of Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Grade Church Cornwall - St. Grada/index.htm] [accessed 23 June 2019]
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symbol - letter - M
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symbol - star - 4-point
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: with the font in the foreground, right side, by the south entranceway
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: showint a partial view of the font on the left side, by the south entranceway
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font in context - west side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10652GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Grada and the Holy Cross
Church Patron Saints: St. Grada & the Holy Cross [the latter appears to be the original dedication traceable to 1261, whereas the added dedication to St. Grada is known as of 1310]
Church Location: Grade, Helston TR12 7LQ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A3083, 3 km NNE of Lizard and in the peninsula of the same name, 9-10 km SSE of Helston, 15-16 km SSW of Falmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Cornish font, Bodmin group [variant]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: 13thC church; re-built mid-19thC
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Grade in the Domesday survey. Cox (1912) writes: "The late Norm[an] font is supported by central shaft and 4 angle shafts with capitals reaching to the brim ; it is a plain example of the Bodmin type […] of characteristically Cornish design". Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font of the C13, a variation of the Bodmin type, similar to Cury: thick short corner shafts and four shallowly carved stars, rosettes, etc., in circles." Noted in the KerrierDeanery site www.kerrierdeanery.co.uk/GradeHist.htm : "The font is 13th century with thick short corner shafts and stars and rosettes in circles." Like many of the early -and later- fonts in Cornwall, the round basin has bulging capitals at 90 degree angles [heads in some Cornish fonts] that are the extension of the four outer colonnettes of the base; there is also a central shaft; the whole is raised on a quadrangular lower base. There is no cover present but the upper rim shows evidence of metal plugs in it. [NB: this font could be a 14thC+(?) version of the Bodmin type, as some of the elements of the decoration suggest].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.984983, -5.1928
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 59′ 5.94″ N, 5° 11′ 34.08″ W
UTM: 30U 342806 5539265
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970