Mawgan / Mawgan-in-Meneage / St. Mawgan in Meneage / Mawgan in Kerrier

Described in Blight (1862): "The font is octagonal, with a shaft curved inwardly, and four circular slender shafts attached, following the curve." Noted in Cox (1912) as a baptismal font of the Early English period raised on five shafts. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, with corner shafts coming out in a stove-pipe fashion." The Mawgmen web site [http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Magmen.htm] notes: "The font has minor shafts curved around the shape of the bowl in a peculiar manner. It is made of [A]lvan stone, but has lost two of the four corner shafts -- remnants are nearby." The two surviving columns or 'appendages' resemble the outer drain pipes of a building: they are narrow and cylindrical, with moulding ornamentation, and they follow -more or less- the contour of the main body of the font, from the upper basin side to the lower base; the main body of the font has the shape of a regular octagonal font of the period: the basin has plain vertical sides, while the pronounced chamfer is slightly convex and ends in a centre ring; from here down, the lower half of the font is practically a mirror image of the upper part. It is mounted on a two-step plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, but has a tallish traceried finial. [NB: the same source informs that a second font in this church, located in the south transept, "came from All Saints' Church Helston in 1984"; the font was presented "in memory of the Rogers family of Penrose, Porthleven" -- this font is not included in the Index on account of its late date]