Egloskerry

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10779EGL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Keria and St. Petrock
Church Patron Saints: St. Keria [is it St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr]?] & St. Petrock
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just W of St Stephen-by-Launceston, N of Trewen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, by the S door
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Beazley [www.netfirms.com] for the photograph of this font.
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.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Hicks Mill greystone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928