Egloskerry
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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2003
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Beazley, 2003
Image Source: Steve Beazley
Copyright Instructions: Permission to reproduce (standing permit)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10779EGL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Keria and St. Petrock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, by the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Keria [is it St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr]?] & St. Petrock
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of St Stephen-by-Launceston, N of Trewen
Font Notes:
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Cox (1912) lists this as one of a group of Cornish fonts made from "hard Hicks Mill greystone"; this one noted as Norman and plain. Tyrrell-Green (1928) gives a list of fonts in which a rope moulding constitutes "the sole adornment": Bierton (Bucks.), Egloskerry (Cornwall), Launcells Cornwall), Tremaine (Cornwall), Wick (Glam), Tresmere (Cornwall), Notgrove (Gloucs.), Folkton (NYorks.), Backwell (Somerset), Congresbury (Somerset). Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain Norman, with cable-moulding at the top." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Egloskerry.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]. The font has an hour-glass overall shape; the hemispherical basin is plain except for a narrow rope moulding around the upper rim side; plain round splaying base; stands on an octagonal lower base and an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone, just inside the south door, to the right. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Hicks Mill greystone?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, 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, p. 12, 96
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 65
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79