Germoe No. 2 / St. Germoe / Saint Germoe

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B01: design element - patterns - scalloped

INFORMATION

FontID: 10790GER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Germoe
Church Patron Saints: St. Germoe [aka Germoc, Germanus Mac Guill, probably an Irish monk]
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located just off the A394, 10 km E of Penzance
Font Location in Church: In the transept [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Blight (1863) writes: "On the floor lies the fragment of a Norman font, which may have belonged to some chapel in the neighbourhood." Pevsner (1970) notes: "Stoup. Fragment in the N. transept, Norman, scalloped." The KerrierDeanery web site [www.kerrierdeanery.co.uk], however, writes: "The original Norman Font was destroyed by Cromwellian soldiers and the remains of the bowl lie in the South Transept." [NB: Pevsner had noted this object as a stoup and its location as the north transept, but both sources refer obviously to the the same object]. Thomas (1983) compares a basin now in Tintagel St Materiana's, but originally found in Island Chapel, to this and fonts at Sithney and Treslothan. [cf. Index entry for Germoe No. 1 for an interesting old font in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment

REFERENCES

Blight, John Thomas, "Cornish churches [pt. 8]", [214], May 1863, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1863, pp. 572-582; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970
Thomas, Charles, English Heritage book of Tintagel: Arthur and archaeology, London: B.T. Batsford / English Heritage, 1983